Example sentences of "she [vb past] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 2 | She led them towards the kitchen , certain that Bella would make them welcome and throw another three or four collops of bacon into the pan . |
| 3 | Millie 's new mistress paused as if uncertain what to do next ; then turning quickly about , she led them from the kitchen into the hall and to the open front door again , and looked to where her children were all standing round the pony and cart . |
| 4 | The palms of her hands were sweating , and she wiped them against the legs of her tunic . |
| 5 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 6 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 7 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 8 | So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another . |
| 9 | From time to time , as she looked up , specks of gritty plaster landed in her eyes and , putting her broom down for a moment , she dabbed them with the corner of her shawl . |
| 10 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 11 | She inspected them under the warehouse light , her gimlet eyes roving over their grotty tack , the horses ' condition , the state of their shoes . |
| 12 | She thumbed them into the magazine before placing it carefully back in the box with the weapon . |
| 13 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 14 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 15 | She told them of the hardships suffered by our men . |
| 16 | She dropped them on the chopping-board and crushed them under the blade of her knife . |
| 17 | She now turned and , gathering up the coat , the blouse and the skirt , and the black hat , she threw them behind the couch , saying , ‘ See you tomorrow , my dears ; ’ then looking at the child , she said , ‘ Well now , you 're dry , you said , ’ and , taking her hand , led her across the room and into the original large , stone-floored kitchen , and from there into an equally large pantry . |
| 18 | She joined them near the table . |
| 19 | Then she showed them to the door . |
| 20 | Someone brought her a coffee and she smiled vague thanks , noting with the same odd detachment that her hands were shaking as she clasped them around the mug . |
| 21 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , mind you eat these courgettes , ’ she said to her daughter , as she sliced them into the pan . |
| 23 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 24 | She was floating — in the same way as the keys did n't when she released them on the Moon . |
| 25 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 26 | She followed them to the house and looked through the windows . |
| 27 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |
| 28 | She dumped them on the arm of Nina 's chair . |
| 29 | She warned them about the steep steps . |
| 30 | But , to her surprise , when she tied them at the back they were hardly any weight at all . |