Example sentences of "[vb past] them [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 2 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
| 3 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 4 | If we had six pizzas and we shared them out between two of us how |
| 5 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 6 | They did n't move either until they got one of the old horsemen : he got them away without any trouble . ’ |
| 7 | His partner , and captain , was Mickey Walker and her steadiness , combined with flashes of flair from Llewellyn , got them round in 69 , three under par , for a two-round total of 137 , one shot behind the leaders . |
| 8 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 9 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 10 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 11 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 12 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 13 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 14 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 15 | His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland . |
| 16 | and caught them out with some incisive breaks . |
| 17 | Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ? |
| 18 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 19 | Lastly they took the Minister and his wife , Jan , and drove them fast in separate cars across the Churchill Barriers that block the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow , to Kirkwall , the county town on Orkney 's mainland . |
| 20 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 21 | The feeling of being in the centre of things , of constant activity , of being in charge not only of a vehicle but its VIP occupant — or occupants — and the different venues to and from which she transported them all over southern England , appealed enormously to her restless nature and craving for excitement . |
| 22 | ‘ I faced them twice in 1984 and the memory still makes me wince , ’ said the Harlequins openside man flanker last night . |
| 23 | She handed them over without any further argument . |
| 24 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |
| 25 | David Swan joined them promptly at six-thirty . |
| 26 | All outsiders required protection , so business was good for ‘ the technicals , ’ so named because the UN could not employ gangsters and paid them instead as technical assistants . |
| 27 | Last night at Edgar Street Torquay turned them over with two goals in four minutes just before half-time . |
| 28 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 29 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 30 | On and on they travelled , rattling appallingly fast over the rutted roads so as to outstrip the pilgrims who followed them out of each town and village . |