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 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
| 3 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 4 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 5 | Lovely face , Jo has , despite the lines and paleness , dark hair and blue eyes , says she got them from her wild Irish grandmother . |
| 6 | Not only was it their first victory since early December but it moved them above their vanquished opponents at the foot of the table . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After a long time , a familiar voice woke them from their lazy reverie . |
| 13 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 14 | We sat stuffing ourselves with smoked-salmon sandwiches , slurping Earl Grey , while she charmed and intimidated them with her stolen airs and purloined graces . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Regretfully , I consigned them to my personal museum of surfing memorabilia along with my Coogee Beach swallow-tail radical intermediate . |
| 17 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 18 | The British were suspicious of the loyalty of headmen , and soon stripped them of their judicial powers . |
| 19 | His screams were so terrible that none who ever heard them forgot them till their dying day . |
| 20 | Hastily she dashed the back of her hand over her eyes , stapled the minutes together neatly and folded them into their respective envelopes . |
| 21 | Both fly halves favoured high kicks , but Bircham fielded them with his usual aplomb . |
| 22 | Their disruptive behaviour was proving a headache to Mr Jones until he discovered the elephants could be kept at bay if he fed them with their favourite fruit pears . |
| 23 | I allowed a couple of hours for this to mix with the original water then netted the goldfish and placed them in their new environment . |
| 24 | Some specimens of the trunks of bennettites ( see p 107 ) are among the most spectacular of fossils , and they even attracted the attention of the Etruscans , who included them among their sacred relics more than four thousand years ago ! |
| 25 | He reached up , plucked his balls from Legion 's body and stashed them inside his capacious pockets . |
| 26 | In other cases which have attracted recent headlines , trainee firemen in London were hosed with cold water and left in the street in baby doll nightdresses , a young policewoman in Manchester was handcuffed to railings through a freezing night , and army recruits in Colchester were forced to call out musical notes as a sergeant hit them on their naked buttocks with a baseball bat . |
| 27 | Rhodri watched them with his hooded , wary eyes , and said nothing . |
| 28 | These he occasionally set to music himself , and he frequently sang them in his rich bass voice for his friends ' ( and perhaps the public 's ) pleasure … |
| 29 | I recently saw them at my local garden centre . |
| 30 | He kept them in his bottom right-hand drawer . |