Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , he 'd left them very much in her hands , but now , with her own departure looming , he 'd decided it was necessary to go through everything with her . |
| 2 | He arrived to find them just finishing and asked hopefully if any prints had been found . |
| 3 | The evidence they read and heard made them strongly critical of the way in which local authorities and health services failed to carry out their important responsibilities in this respect . |
| 4 | And I meant you know , to bring some , I meant to put them out last night . |
| 5 | Such actions did not infringe the Corrupt Practice Acts but they did make them virtually inoperative . |
| 6 | As Eve had anticipated , it did win them much more freedom . |
| 7 | To simplify his thoughts he had listed them under two headings : first there was that which directly affected Belpan . |
| 8 | Despite the December 1990 agreement on the division of powers between the federal government and the country 's two constituent republics [ see p. 37922 ] , calls for greater autonomy and independence had continued to grow in Slovakia , and Meciar had given them increasingly explicit support , setting up an office of foreign affairs ( headed by his close ally Milan Knazno ) and leading Slovak delegations abroad . |
| 9 | Jack had seen them all many times . |
| 10 | The six-year-old instinct had made them curiously abstract , and Thomas was much moved . |
| 11 | Yet far from cowing the Poles , the Commission had made them more nationalist and more determined to resist than ever . |
| 12 | Within days Hadley Cantril and a team of psychologists from Princeton University were interviewing listeners to see just what had made them so convinced and , in many cases , so panic stricken . |
| 13 | Both were convicted and sentenced to hang , ironically for a mass of mundane crimes , and not for the Royal Mail robbery that had made them so famous . |
| 14 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 15 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 16 | Joshua had to send them home empty-handed . ’ |
| 17 | Whether it was chance or the covert workings of the Unbeheld that had brought them together this way , there was surely significance in their reunion . |
| 18 | Why did it hurt to learn that it had been the machinations of others that had brought them together this time ? |
| 19 | Now their campaign is being carried out without the mass of top party politicians they had to back them up last year . |
| 20 | And it had cost them about fifteen or something . |
| 21 | We had one roll-up an hour and you had to roll them so thin to make the tobacco last : jaw-achers they were . |
| 22 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 23 | It had taken them almost two hundred and fifty of Quiss 's " days " to discover what the way out was . |
| 24 | It had taken them only ten minutes to reach this far . |
| 25 | Well cos th the government had allowed them so much I suppose and erm that was costing them so much on wages and that , so they had to cut them down on wages . |
| 26 | ‘ My master said to bring them here this morning . |
| 27 | When I first saw it , when I was looking at it , I was amazed at these huge great hooks and eyes , and I thought ‘ gosh , they ca n't have been very good at making hooks and eyes if they had to make them so big ’ . |
| 28 | And it was er They used to great pride in their in their er stacks because they had to make them as neat as they could and er well built , so that if the So that w that was good for the To keep the the wind keep them dry . |
| 29 | Environmentalists were no longer ‘ the enemy within ’ , as Mrs Thatcher had described them only three years earlier . |
| 30 | Although a few years since Sunday Caddies were mentioned , they were still controversial , and in 1925 the Harpsden Parish Church of St Margaret sought to ban them under 14 years of age , so as to improve the chances of their attending Sunday School and Church . |