Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave them some thought , then extracted two and stowed them in his hip pocket . |
| 2 | Now the railways levelled them with their black cousins on the other side of the 49th parallel . |
| 3 | The Sheikha usually made them for her . |
| 4 | Yes , she made them for her teacher 's as well , they 'll chocolates . |
| 5 | Since the war , every spell of Anfield success has been set or kept in motion by the signing of a top-class ‘ striker-cum-provider ’ a player who not only scored goals but also made them for his colleagues . |
| 6 | Moreover , we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it . |
| 7 | He depicted them with their mothers or alone , being held or rocked , or lying in cradles . |
| 8 | Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters . |
| 9 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 10 | They had come to see the show and my guilt for neglecting them afterwards was eased by Pam and Kath , also at the show this evening , who entertained them in my absence . |
| 11 | He then startled champions-elect Everton with an early goal when we met them at their Goodison Park headquarters a week later ( 1–2 ) . |
| 12 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
| 13 | ‘ Harry ’ — impossibly yet further darkness had dawned on the total blackness of George 's conscience — ‘ then we led them to her . |
| 14 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 15 | ‘ In a matter such as this , the reasoning which led them to their opinion is a vital piece of information which should not be withheld from the House of Commons . |
| 16 | ‘ I led them to your car . |
| 17 | ‘ He led them to my place . |
| 18 | ‘ I led them to you . ’ |
| 19 | He led them towards what he called the monkey walk , where large cages of chattering inmates jumped about from branch to branch of trees and bushes in the enclosure . |
| 20 | And she led them inside her house and through to her kitchen . |
| 21 | In research for the advertising campaign — where we carried out in-depth , face-to-face interviews with senior representatives of 50 existing and potential customers — we looked at existing attitudes and probed them on what it would take to persuade them to come to us to answer their problems . |
| 22 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 23 | So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers . |
| 24 | so loyal was he that he rejected his cousins , the UNICORNS , when Alexander 's men attacked them for their horns . |
| 25 | Mobutu resisted pressure from Western governments to enter into a power-sharing arrangement with Tshisekedi and attacked them for their " flagrant interference " ; he understood , he said , " that Western aid is mixed with all sorts of threats and blackmail " . |
| 26 | He caught her wrists , pinned them to her sides , eyes blazing . |
| 27 | tramped them for my er , round and round on them . |
| 28 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 29 | Yet once children were taken into care , and especially if this was by a compulsory route , parents frequently felt ignored and excluded , and there was evidence that they were often left to cope alone with the practical and psychological barriers that divided them from their children . |
| 30 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |