Example sentences of "[vb past] them [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 3 | The anxiety of the Tsar and Tsarina to shield their haemophiliac son led them to withdraw into a narrow family circle , incurring the displeasure of members of high society . |
| 4 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 5 | This disagreement led to a reconciliation on the tenth morning culminating in a bout of furious unaccustomed holiday sex ( the kind you do n't get anywhere else ) , which in turn led them to wander onto the beach much later in the day , feeling sheepish and rather pleased with themselves . |
| 6 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 7 | As a result Mrs Pankhurst asked them to withdraw from the WSPU , and the militant suffragette movement split off into the ‘ Peths ’ and the ‘ Panks ’ , with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence helping to found the non-violent Votes for Women Fellowship and the Women 's Freedom League . |
| 8 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 9 | On the Sunday following the manor fire , as Tom , Seb , Dolly and Carrie left Swinbrook chapel after the morning service , Christian asked them to come to the farmhouse . |
| 10 | The band formed a friendship with NME journalist Neil Taylor , and he asked them to appear on a label he was starting called City Slang . |
| 11 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 12 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 13 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 14 | To back-benchers who expressed alarm at VAT on domestic fuel , Mr Lamont and Mr Major simply invited them to step into the real world . |
| 15 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 16 | And flipping , twenty five pounds it cost them to get into the . |
| 17 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 18 | He told them to go amongst the people of the land and offer them their service , to defend Minginish instead of conquering it ; for the most earth a man ever needs is what is piled in his grave . |
| 19 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 20 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 21 | This caused them to sink into the ground until the crossbar was only two inches above the grass . |
| 22 | But because these interests in land were protected by personal and not by the real actions , they developed a set of legal characteristics which caused them to differ from the interests classed as real property . |
| 23 | This allowed them to distinguish between the two separate processes of adsorption of viruses onto cells , and actual entry into the cells . |
| 24 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 25 | Teesside Crown Court was told Ninham had offered to give the boys money for fireworks and encouraged them to go for a walk with him and his dog . |
| 26 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 27 | The nuns led them through a series of exercises which encouraged them to think about the good in themselves , and to know that God , in His love for them , has forgiven their sins . |
| 28 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 29 | I told her I 'd breast-fed the children on it and taught them to read by the fire on it , and that it had been wonderful as a family gathering place for many years . |
| 30 | Once everyone had disembarked , the sergeant-major warned them to prepare for a fifteen-mile route-march . |