Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To please him , she travelled , learnt languages , read all the guide books to the cities he insisted they visit , became a sexual virtuoso , developed opinions on the classics and on contemporary literature , and learnt never to voice them at the dinner table unless asked . |
| 2 | The Sheikh spoke quietly to his chauffeur , then stepped forward to acknowledge them with a courteous inclination of the head . |
| 3 | Th th the final the final sort of sick joke was the fact that erm having having disposed of the fingers to the theatre , the hospital they 'd got this box of ice lollies so they proceeded then to give them to people ! |
| 4 | When asked to hold themselves accountable to their residents , local authorities chose instead to clobber them with a 30 per cent . |
| 5 | It is doubtful how many of those who bestow gifts of coral on infants appreciate that their forebears did so to protect them from bewitchment . |
| 6 | When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses . |
| 7 | When the paintings were delivered the older couple were almost apoplectic at the sight of them and refused even to store them in their house . |
| 8 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |