Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the railways levelled them with their black cousins on the other side of the 49th parallel . |
| 2 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 3 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
| 4 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 5 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 6 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 7 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 8 | Lovely face , Jo has , despite the lines and paleness , dark hair and blue eyes , says she got them from her wild Irish grandmother . |
| 9 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 10 | Not only was it their first victory since early December but it moved them above their vanquished opponents at the foot of the table . |
| 11 | These are acceptable , but the witch who , at ‘ by the pricking of my thumbs ’ , held up his thumbs and twiddled them for us all to check out was excessive . |
| 12 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 13 | It was conceivable that , as the area chairmen feared , higher prices in domestic tariffs would not only have discouraged undesirable loads such as peak space heating , but also the ones such as water heating and cooking which helped them in their overall commercial strategy and were largely off-peak . |
| 14 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 15 | It is therefore a bonus for the theory that clay replicators synthesized organic molecules and used them for their own purposes . |
| 16 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 17 | It is thought that the Christians of the early Church valued such phrases which had been spoken by Jesus and used them in their original Aramaic form . |
| 18 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 19 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 20 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 21 | Also , the process of writing often brings fresh insights to mind , and helps to ground them in your everyday life — as anyone who keeps a dream diary will know . |
| 22 | After a long time , a familiar voice woke them from their lazy reverie . |
| 23 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 24 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 25 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |
| 26 | We sat stuffing ourselves with smoked-salmon sandwiches , slurping Earl Grey , while she charmed and intimidated them with her stolen airs and purloined graces . |
| 27 | Feeling drugged , and wanton , she touched her fingers to his nape , his ears , tangled them in his thick hair , felt his soft sigh as his breath mingled with hers — and still he continued to kiss her . |
| 28 | Regretfully , I consigned them to my personal museum of surfing memorabilia along with my Coogee Beach swallow-tail radical intermediate . |
| 29 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 30 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |