Example sentences of "was [verb] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Anselm 's first actions during his first year as archbishop was to suspend them both . |
| 2 | Luke was drawing them all in , drawing them back , drawing her … |
| 3 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 4 | Syl was eating them all up without requiring any encouragement . |
| 5 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 6 | Telling us all how we would have to adapt in various minor ways to changing circumstances , but that basically our lives would carry on very much as normal — and it was weird , I was wanting them all to believe him , and him to be telling the truth . |
| 7 | The traditional way to cook them was fry them alive in hot bacon fat , then add an egg , which had the effect of binding them together . |
| 8 | Pumlumon said in a voice of utmost astonishment , ‘ But has your honour never heard of the Draoicht Suan ? ’ and was instantly hushed by Bith of the Bog-Hat , who had by now sensed that something was wrong , being a gnome of more percipience than his fellows and who liked , no more than Fenella , the manner in which Goibniu was eyeing them all . |
| 9 | It was costing them extra in postage |
| 10 | Mummy was bought them two fifty nine P . |
| 11 | This conversation was getting them both precisely nowhere , and , besides , it was making her feel uncomfortable . |
| 12 | One thing he did was to reassure them that planning was not as far advanced as they had feared . |
| 13 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ The current was drifting them one way and the wind was blowing the boat the other . ’ |
| 14 | The greatest problem with seeds was to keep them dry and free from rats . |
| 15 | I was to keep them safe and eventually give them to anyone who survived . |
| 16 | in return for the salon 's fee , clients discovered that they could be entertained by nude hostesses whose sole task was to read them pornographic or erotic literature . |
| 17 | The gallon of cider at the picnic plus the four pints of the last hour was giving them that lovely sleepy lethargic feeling . |
| 18 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 19 | She felt that the slightest movement would snap his will , precipitating an explosion out of the swell of desire that was sweeping them both to the edge of a world they were too prudent to enter willingly . |
| 20 | It was one of his favourite songs and he was showing them all in the lounge bar at Ingham 's how it should be sung one Saturday night . |
| 21 | The trick was to get them all the same size . |
| 22 | Simon glanced round at Tony , the owner 's son , who had stopped reading his comic and was watching them both , curiously . |
| 23 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 24 | The policy of the labour exchanges towards boys who wanted to come out of farming was to refuse them alternative employment . |
| 25 | The first thing Mum did when she found out was throw them all away . |
| 26 | ‘ They became the rage and I was delivering them all day in the Rolls , ’ said Crawford . |
| 27 | Before we left for Bosnia I told my platoon that my ultimate aim was to bring them all home alive . |
| 28 | Vatican II was to prove them correct . |
| 29 | The Post Office Records section at St Martin's-le-Grand has ample files on the Electrophone , and Roy Jones , the official in charge there , gave me the gratifying impression that his one pleasure in life was to make them available to me — in comfort , in a reading room next to his office . |
| 30 | The secret , he said , was to throw them high into the trees so they dispersed as they fell . |