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 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 6 | Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 13 | The elder of the body slaves gathered the braided ends of his master 's hair and bound them together with gold wire . |
| 14 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 15 | As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise : |
| 16 | These were being lowered to the roof-top , where Repo Men guided them on to powered sleds and steered them into the lift . |
| 17 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 18 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 19 | But he shoved them aside like inconsiderate pushers-in at a concert , and went on listening to Izzie playing her pipe or Lucie speaking the verses . |
| 20 | Studies of social mobility , of schools , of work , of leisure , of youth culture , even of the family , either ignored women or saw them only through male eyes . |
| 21 | The regard in which chiefs held their jade ornaments is shown by the way they stored them along with prized bird plumage in the elaborately carved wooden treasure boxes which rank among the most outstanding products of Maori art . |
| 22 | People in those worlds probably treated them rather like national papers , too . |
| 23 | There were tears on her cheeks and he carefully eased them away with gentle fingers . |
| 24 | Now , leading the way across a parquet-floored drawing-room , she took them out through French windows into a large walled garden . |
| 25 | Eggs , for example , were traditionally sold loose from wooden crates or boxes , and the customer took them home with great care in paper bags . |
| 26 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 27 | In 1981 he skippered Harrogate to their first Yorkshire Cup victory for 17 years and coached them back to cup-winning form when they beat Otley in the final at Morley last April . |
| 28 | In 1981 he skippered Harrogate to their first Yorkshire Cup victory for 17 years and coached them back to cup-winning form when they beat Otley in the final at Morley last April . |
| 29 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 30 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |