Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 2 | Towards noon on 5th October , Howard 's treaty Nez Perce scouts Captain John and Old George carried a white flag to the fugitives ' lines and asked them to make peace . |
| 3 | The area has encouraged entrepreneurs and investors since the late 1930s when engineering professor , Frederick Terman , the acknowledged ‘ father of Silicon Valley ’ , attracted engineers and scientists from the east and helped them find money for their work . |
| 4 | Disgusted by the latest battle between the quarrelsome politicians , he met the prime minister , Nawaz Sharif , and the president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , separately on May 31st and told them to make peace or else . |
| 5 | They gave them much latitude in day-to-day operations and allowed them to mould law and order policies according to counter-insurgency theories . |
| 6 | Only coal could have fuelled the growth of towns and allowed them to concentrate labour to such a degree , and in addition the canals brought building materials and food supplies . |
| 7 | Detective Inspector Rex Carpenter told the inquest that the builders had knocked on Mr and Mrs Wilkins ' door and persuaded them to have work done on their home . |
| 8 | They said that the girl had entered the room in a sheer nightdress and enticed them to have sex . |
| 9 | If they had difficulties then I broke each stage down into small steps and gave them repeated practice . |
| 10 | In other versions Isis collected parts of the body and rejoined them to create mummy , performing rites which gave the dead Osiris eternal life . |
| 11 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |