Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 2 | Christina led them under an arched stone portico and through a labyrinth of white-stucco passageways opening onto vine-covered courtyards where tiny humming-birds fluttered through tall bamboo , and antique urns overflowed with red and pink angelica . |
| 3 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 4 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 5 | To determine whether DP-1 is present in complexes containing Rb , we immunoprecipitated them with an anti-Rb monoclonal antibody from extracts of the human leukaemic cell line JM , which contain high levels of the DRTF1/E2F-Rb complex . |
| 6 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 7 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 8 | I found them in an old file . |
| 9 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 10 | Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage . |
| 11 | Two organisations which we visited further emphasised the " non-regularity " of their temporary workers ' employment by not guaranteeing them any fixed number of hours per week — they were contracted to work " as and when required " — and this , of course , provided them with an important , additional source of flexibility . |
| 12 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 13 | He kissed her bunched fingers again , then quickly dropped them as an elegant woman paused by their table . |
| 14 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 15 | But in practice positivists almost invariably worked uncritically and unquestioningly with the products of the existing legal definitions ; by default , they endowed them with an objective status . |
| 16 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 17 | Lloyd George defended them by an aggressive verbal attack on the privileges of landowners : |
| 18 | They coughed their way through All Things Bright and Beautiful , and when they came to the bit about ‘ God made them high and lowly , and ordered their estate , ’ he waved them to an unceremonious halt and plunged into his sermon : |
| 19 | Dolly 's voice brought them to an abrupt halt . |
| 20 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 21 | Back inside the house he gathered them into an oversized bunch and headed for the kitchen , leaving a trail of fallen petals in his wake . |
| 22 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 23 | The whole family dreaded going to court , so Theresa took them to an empty courtroom , showed them where everyone sat and explained what would happen . |
| 24 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 25 | The wedding was held in 1920 at Mouthlock Methodist Chapel , at South Stainmore , where Mother was the organist and , much to her surprise and delight , the members of the chapel presented them with an inscribed silver teapot . |
| 26 | He returned shortly and ushered them into an airy office , overlooking the Grand Union Canal . |
| 27 | After their winning match against Crewe Alexandra , the Shots polished performance improved their league position by four places , and left them with an outside chance of going up into Division III . |
| 28 | He scooped up some pellets and pushed them into an empty flower pot , keeping his thumb over the hole in the bottom . |
| 29 | In the old deed of settlement company , which was merely an enlarged partnership with the partnership property vested in trustees , it was clear that the members ' ‘ shares ’ entitled them to an equitable interest in the assets . |
| 30 | In 1550 three London gentlemen paid £18,744 11 2d , which entitled them to an annual income of £939 2 5½d from the various properties . |