Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 2 | ‘ I met them on one of my early trips out here . ’ |
| 3 | The count led them through one of the doors into what was a very beautiful drawing-room and almost immediately a servant came in with refreshments . |
| 4 | The TV producer led them to one of the last suites on the left and a young man in pullover and jeans swung round on his chair . |
| 5 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 6 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 7 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 8 | She recognised them as some of the soldiers immediately . |
| 9 | ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 10 | Interest was such in the traditional , let estate that agent Lane Fox called for best and final offers and received them from close to 10 different parties . |
| 11 | Some historians have argued that , once the Indians had become part of the Christian community , their cause was championed by the church who protected them from some of the worst excesses of colonial power ( Poblete 1970 ) . |
| 12 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 13 | He certainly talked about such things , defended them against some of their critics ; but his business , what engrossed him and what he knew well , was the school . |
| 14 | Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head . |
| 15 | Worcester were wobbling at 33 for three but Hick guided them to 158 for five . |
| 16 | Valadier restored them in 1821 in travertine which is distinguishable from the original marble workmanship ( 157 ) . |
| 17 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 18 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 19 | Ruth would retire behind her screen to read them and stored them in one of her drawers . |
| 20 | ‘ Incidentally , when Inez went Matthew collected all her belongings together , everything that reminded him of her , and stored them in one of the attics ; nobody else was allowed to touch the stuff . |
| 21 | She looked them over one by one , Unice and Alice , Peter and Dorian , Jack and George and Eric , Stephan was there and Anna , standing to one side , Teresa , Miranda , Anita , Sasha , Livia and Miriam . |
| 22 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 23 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 24 | British fashion slaves , who would n't venture into Waitrose without a tasteful mélange of Gaultier , Joseph and Alaïa ( or nearest decent copies ) clamped to their backs , still pack the floral swimsuit Mum bought them in 1976 for a Guide camp trip . |
| 25 | They belong to the British Museum , which bought them in 1816 from Lord Elgin , as every schoolboy knows . |
| 26 | Oriental rugs were probably brought into Spain by the Moorish invaders during the 11th and 12th centuries , but it was not until the 14th century that Italian merchants , trading with Anatolia ( Turkey ) and the Near East , introduced them into most of Europe . |
| 27 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |
| 28 | For 4 days , the Glosters held out , although the Chinese outnumbered them by 10 to 1 . |
| 29 | Lambert conducted them on high with an open bottle , sprinkling the couples as they passed beneath . |
| 30 | Instead he waited until stragglers ventured outside the walls and then picked them off one by one , capturing the Dwarfs alive if possible and tormenting them for days within earshot of the citadel walls . |