Example sentences of "them [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villeneuve and Scheckter managed to score just eight points between them during the 1980 season and the reigning world champion failed even to qualify for one race . |
| 2 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 3 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 4 | The English cathedrals also paid heavily for their association with Arminianism , as image-breakers inflicted considerable damage on them during the civil war . |
| 5 | An illustrated booklet to accompany the series was prepared by a member of the Ipswich Tutorial Class and questions which arose during the post-broadcast class discussion were forwarded to Mrs. Adams who dealt with them during the following week 's transmission . |
| 6 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 7 | Britain experimentally contaminated a Scottish island with them during the second world war , and the place was considered dangerous until 1986 . |
| 8 | Ms Ang , a surgeon , volunteered to provide medical assistance to Palestinians and was with them during the Israeli invasion of West Beirut in 1982 . |
| 9 | Farmers will be offered money to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers , and those who choose to convert to organic methods of cultivation will receive support premiums to assist them during the lean transition period . |
| 10 | In his now famous interview on Wednesday , Lamb pointed the finger at Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis , who shared 45 wickets between them during the five-match Test series . |
| 11 | Over one hundred Quakers died in prison in the 1680s , most of them during the harsh winter of 1683 – 4 , and at least 450 Quakers appear to have died for their sufferings during the Restoration period . |
| 12 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 13 | The Head of Department said he expected that the review would ‘ follow them through the normal day ’ , looking at ‘ the way we run the department ; the way we work according to the syllabus — how we relate to it ; the stock control ; the use of resources ; the teaching content and the skills taught ’ ( verified note of meeting ) . |
| 14 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 15 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 16 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 17 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 18 | There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall . |
| 19 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 20 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 21 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 22 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 23 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 24 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 25 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 26 | Keep them out of the way , take them through the ugliest country you can find , confess them the miserable things they are , and spend nothing on them but for safety and speed … |
| 27 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 28 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 29 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 30 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |