Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [vb past] them [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | She was too exhausted to resist and showed them into the living room . |
2 | He had some home truths to impart and presented them without fear or favour . |
3 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
4 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
5 | After coming back magnificently from two goals down with 20 minutes remaining , two goals gifted to Reading in the last five minutes consigned Darlington , who dominated the game , to defeat and left them without a win at home in two months . |
6 | Swod brought his hands together as though ready to pray and raised them to his lips . |
7 | She rounded up her charges before the others began to move and willed them along the path to the car park . |