Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] their [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 2 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 3 | It is therefore a bonus for the theory that clay replicators synthesized organic molecules and used them for their own purposes . |
| 4 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |
| 5 | It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes . |
| 6 | They used the Greek orders , adapted them to their own taste , added two more variations and employed them constructively in temples and basilicas but more often , especially in later work , only decoratively when the arch mode of construction was used , for example , in the Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus . |
| 7 | But Lord Justice MacDermott did not impose any conditions when he released them on their own bail of £100 . |
| 8 | Any queries about the machines being taken away had been answered with the half-truth that the police needed them for their own use . |
| 9 | fancied them for their own kids . |
| 10 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 11 | Hincmar puts in a significant phrase when he says that the minores who " confirmed " assembly-decisions did so " not because they were forced to do so , but because they understood them in their own minds and agreed with them " . |
| 12 | Although they often used traditional remedies , they also associated them with their own poverty and neglect . |
| 13 | The system distracted them from their own businesses and led many of the richest families to ruin , punished for failure to fulfil the Tsar 's expectations . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |