Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] and [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |
| 2 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 3 | He gave them some thought , then extracted two and stowed them in his hip pocket . |
| 4 | He collected some and showed them to a friend who worked in the Geology Department of the Royal Museum , Chambers Street in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | ‘ I just got drunk and threw them over the wall . ’ |
| 6 | Sara looked sulky and left them to it , and they heard her calling to the old lady with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 7 | American game giants , Nintendo cried foul and took them to court in an attempt to ban Game Genie sales in America . |