Example sentences of "them [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had them hidden in a box , in the store room . |
| 2 | Two of , two of them departed for a period of six months . |
| 3 | On reaching the lockers he found the area around them occupied by a crowd of students , their rucksacks and kitbags strewn across the unswept floor . |
| 4 | I found them built into a cottage . |
| 5 | ‘ She gets them made in a factory in Hong Kong . |
| 6 | The two of them dated for a while , but it did n't work out . |
| 7 | By the time the alarm was raised the three raiders , one of them armed with a handgun , had fled the museum in Chelsea , London . |
| 8 | But his father wants them buried in a family plot in Santa Inez . |
| 9 | In 1954 , for example , one of them called for a majority of Africans to be on the unofficial , i.e. representative , benches of the legislative council within three years and for self-government within twenty to twenty-five years . |
| 10 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 11 | There are a number of different kinds of bomb , some of them known by a variety of colourful synonyms , but in many cases , there is a good deal of argument about exactly how they acquire their shape . |
| 12 | Later they had them set in a row near the climbing frame . |
| 13 | All the time his eyes deliberately avoided mine ; he kept them fixed on a picture on the wall behind me . |
| 14 | A new contributory scheme of this kind would be expensive because it must be generous enough to lift people off means-tested supplementary benefit ; and it would still leave them entangled in a cohabitation rule of some sort . |
| 15 | From the little Patrick had told her , and from what she already knew of the woman , she knew Madam Lundy was quite capable of having them killed as a lesson . |
| 16 | The Old Red Sandstone of Scotland was particularly rich in the remains of strange fish , many of them covered with a kind of bony armour-plating . |
| 17 | In the 138-member Chamber of Citizens ( 108 seats for Serbian representatives , half of them elected on a majority system by constituencies and half on a proportional system by party lists , plus 30 for Montenegrin representatives , six by constituency and 24 proportionally ) the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) gained 73 seats ; Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 23 ; Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) 33 ; League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia two ; Democratic Community of Vojvodina Magyars ( DZVM ) two ; independents three ; two seats for Serbia went to a second round of voting , held on June 14 ( together with two second-round polls for the republican assembly ) . |
| 18 | And what worries me , if I may say so in this matter is that , that I find er in my retirement , a sensitivity among some of my fellow ministers about something that one of them described as a threat to status a feeling that there must be a protection of prerogatives . |
| 19 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |