Example sentences of "[vb past] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 2 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 3 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 4 | This despot conceived great projects and realized them … |
| 5 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 6 | From its windows a crowd , led by John Žižka , threw the anti-Hus councillors to the crowd below , who promptly lynched them . |
| 7 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 8 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 9 | He might also have said , as he had on countless occasions , that although he had constantly looked to the British for advice , he distrusted them acutely . |
| 10 | Excluded from power by the new king who understandably distrusted them , discredited by their connexion with the defeated Jacobites , the Tories as a significant Parliamentary group soon ceased to exist . |
| 11 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 12 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 13 | Court archives included much material of interest , but the people who consulted them were almost exclusively clerks who needed to establish points for cases : they were not used for history-making . |
| 14 | During the Falklands War , Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments , and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions . |
| 15 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 16 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
| 17 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 18 | The key to this was developing attitude scales , many of them named after the researchers who devised them . |
| 19 | They astounded and horrified them . |
| 20 | After all it was I who recommended them to use Nadirpur . ’ |
| 21 | Dr. Welch recommended them to the committee , who noted the report but took no further action . |
| 22 | Denis Thornton recommended them . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It was not I , mon ami , who kidnapped them . ’ |
| 24 | A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint . |
| 25 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 26 | What is important is determining why they were here , and who kidnapped them . ’ |
| 27 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 28 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 29 | This autonomy is particularly apparent in older buildings , because they outlast generations of occupants : ‘ It always seems strange to me , ’ Fay Weldon remarks , ‘ how different families serve shifts in the same house ; as if the house owned them , sucked them dry , spat them out and tried again- and not the family that controlled the house at all . ’ |
| 30 | Tommy , inset left , killed him when they thought he owned them £25 . |