Example sentences of "them [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 2 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 3 | The three of them moved thought the ship at a speed that I can hardly describe . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 5 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 6 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 7 | On the contrary many of them came to inspect the " little blue customs ship " and stayed for refreshments . |
| 8 | None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else . |
| 9 | Shield-hung hurdles were brought out into the field , and bowmen and slingshot-throwers behind them began to shred the trees with a descending curtain of missiles . |
| 10 | The next hour passed amiably , by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day . |
| 11 | All of them dreaded seeing the " hand-of-death " . |
| 12 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 13 | Sean looked at Ruth and they started to laugh again , but since neither of them wished to waken the sleepers they stifled their mirth . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's horrible , truly horrible , ’ one of them said surveying the damage . |
| 15 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |
| 16 | Delays on certain products , the strength of the dollar and a shift to leasing computers rather than buying them had caused the company to issue the warning . |
| 17 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 18 | Fortunately most of them had seen the programme and were committed admirers of Hannah . |
| 19 | There had been plenty of evolutionists in the first half of the century , but the biologists among them had handled the subject with caution and some personal fear . |
| 20 | During the month after her father 's death each of them had discovered the need to explore hitherto suppressed areas of feeling and half-knowledge that stood between them and a clearer knowledge of the selves they were now fully determined to offer to each other . |
| 21 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 22 | Neither of them had heard the door open , but suddenly Tom was there , and it was clear that he had heard Faye 's last words . |
| 23 | In the morning he looked hollow-eyed , but he 'd gone off , with dogged cheerfulness , to take prayers at Snead Hall , a sad , second-rate little girls ' public school , where he was Chaplain , and the rest of them had caught the bus . |
| 24 | My previous attempts at getting rid of them had had the effect of reactivating them . |
| 25 | Nearly two months had passed since the last crisis in their relationship — the night they had seen Bicycle Thieves — and still neither of them had had the courage to face its implications . |
| 26 | Michael Willis , the ancient Hawaiians , Victor Hugo , had all been affected by wave-fever ; all of them had abjured the text . |
| 27 | A tall French-Canadian and a Japanese-American girl who sat with them had taken the precaution of handing their luggage over to someone in tourist class where the doors were locked for the duration of the journey . |
| 28 | Neither of them had taken the slightest notice of my movements , except that Mr Parsons was already in my empty chair , and the two of them , with Ewen Mackay 's flask of whisky now standing between them , were talking about salmon fishing . |
| 29 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 30 | Some of them had swum the border rivers , the Oder or the Neisse , despite the knowledge that more than a dozen had drowned . |