Example sentences of "[vb past] them [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 2 | Mrs Hollidaye took off her leather gloves and laid them neatly on top of her handbag on the pew beside her , straightened her hat and unhooked a cushion which hung from a brass hook beneath the shelf . |
| 3 | We met them afterwards on stage . |
| 4 | Asked what concerned them most in connection with nuclear power , respondents named the possibility of accidents , human error and the storage of radioactive waste . |
| 5 | All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste . |
| 6 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 7 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 8 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 9 | The genitors of the children had a recognized standing in relation to their spouses but they visited them only at night and did not take food in the taravad house of their " wives " . |
| 10 | thrashed them out of sight , could n't fucking believe it , when you 've seen a pool table , erm , pool game go on for two hours , that 's when you know you |
| 11 | sort of , the , the last pair went , went on and on and on , it got to twelve o'clock and the the , the landlord said right that 's it he said I 'm closing down no matter what , he said I 'd , I 've , he was n't eleven o'clock on , he said that 's it I ca n't keep it open any longer , so they closed it down , we called the game off , called it a boring match , they came down the club , fucking played them there , thrashed them out of sight first four games , no first five games , five nil , straight away , wahey , fucking walloped them , walloped their that was the , that was the league champion 's as well , Post Office in Grantham |
| 12 | So , from a safe distance , he plucked meanings from the cosmos and wove them together in reassurance . |
| 13 | Although the chapel communities of Rational Dissent , largely identified with Unitarianism by the early nineteenth century , were fiercely proud of their constitutional autonomy , there was a framework of cultural institutions which drew them together in book societies , college trusts and publishing networks . |
| 14 | Leigh travelled to London to meet the Goldsmiths later in July , but " found them not at home " . |
| 15 | Rather , the authors have made a selection and described them fully in order to explain and illustrate several different military strategies . |
| 16 | He flew down to Karachi on April 27th and told them not to back Miss Bhutto 's call for fresh provincial elections . |
| 17 | Jesus told them not to weep for him but for themselves because the day would arrive when they would have enough troubles of their own . |
| 18 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 19 | We then drove them closer to town , where one of our men was readying the piles of clothes . |
| 20 | Nothing was too much to ask if it prolonged her stay , she thought wistfully , so she smiled as she said , ‘ Considering that I was the culprit who booked them in on Ling 's day off , it 's the least I can do . ’ |
| 21 | He thought and meditated ; filled them out by experience of pastoral care and by writing ; and came to such a unity that all his later life he had a coherence of outlook , in thought and devotion and ethic , which was an anchor to the Church of England in difficult days . |
| 22 | Early Punk clothing mixed up every youth style since the war and joined them together with safety pins ; as its radical content faded , this was to supply a rich compost for new styles to grow , as each constituent part — Mod , Ted , skinhead — was unravelled in a series of revivals . |
| 23 | Silvia joined them halfway through lunch and had dinner with them in the evening . |
| 24 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 25 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 26 | He ordered them out to execution on the instant , and it was done . |
| 27 | They made flat piles of twigs , finished them off with evergreen , then emptied their rucksacks and spread the blue nylon on top . |
| 28 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 29 | I discovered them almost by accident through the researches of J.B. Oldham , who had traced over 160 examples of bindings from this workshop , which used various ‘ rolls ’ ( tools having a continuous or repeated design round the edge of a wheel ) , including Tudor emblems , the falcon and the golden fleece , as well as the signed one — ‘ R.B. ’ with heads in medallions . |
| 30 | Another who knocked them up before daylight . |