Example sentences of "and [vb past] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 2 | He rose and led them both down the stone steps , coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door . |
| 3 | Afterwards he washed the tin out in the stream , splashed water over his face and hands and wiped them dry on a handkerchief . |
| 4 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 5 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 6 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 7 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 8 | The grandmother had ‘ a wee shop ’ and the aunt was ‘ a dressmaker , she made dresses and sold them cheap , round about the doors . ’ |
| 9 | Had clear rules and made them explicit |
| 10 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 11 | And the colour was protection because ill fortune weakened its victims and made them vulnerable . |
| 12 | In the summer of 1789 , after Wordsworth had become an undergraduate at St John 's College , Cambridge , a long visit to Dorothy at their uncle 's house in Norfolk confirmed between brother and sister a profound emotional sympathy which remained with them through life , and made them certain that , one day , they wished to share a home . |
| 13 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |
| 14 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 15 | One county , Kopparberg , has handed over most of its budget to family doctors and made them responsible for buying services from competing providers . |
| 16 | A huge steel crane hook suddenly descended quietly between their faces and made them both leap back in alarm . |
| 17 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 18 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 19 | There were several questions I would have liked to have put to them , but had I done so I would have altered the environment for them and made them hyper-conscious of their limitations . |
| 20 | So I did all their clothes last night and got them all dried |
| 21 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 22 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 23 | He took a deep breath , marched to the doors , and flung them open . |
| 24 | Chief Inspector of CID took charge and charged them all and then diplomacy came in and they went to court , discharged , back on the ship , and away . |
| 25 | We 've had a good living out of it but if that same system has brought them on their feet , you know and built them nice homes er right they 've delved into Company 's House now , all the dirty water not dirty water all the whatsit has come up how much they 've drawn from these quarries . |
| 26 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 27 | Crossing the room as though he were heading for the wardrobe , Angel Four suddenly changed direction , took two swift paces to his right , seized the curtains with both hands and jerked them open . |
| 28 | The guidelines have been drawn up carefully by care assistants and managers who have put them into practice and found them useful themselves . |
| 29 | I have been involved in many such courses and found them useful . |
| 30 | What I 've done is just taken over from Catherine last year on her topics which er , seem to quite successful and I certainly know that Marian did them last year and found them good . |