Example sentences of "[vb past] them and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 2 | Ben looked into her eyes and she lowered them and turned her head away . |
| 3 | The horses moved in their stalls as she passed them and threaded her way to the ladder . |
| 4 | The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives . |
| 5 | The whistle blew at 4.45 am and at intervals until six , dismissed them and summoned them from breakfast and dinner , and finally in the evening at 5.30 pm . |
| 6 | They 've melted them , dissolved them , cracked them and fished them out — now they 're going to attack them with an electric whisk . |
| 7 | Aunt Margaret stroked them and adored them and fastened them round Melanie 's neck . |
| 8 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 9 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 10 | Let me go ! ’ and flung her hands out and he caught them and held them firmly . |
| 11 | And the Old Bill came down and found them and nicked us , even after what they 'd said . |
| 12 | He felt for the edges of the square door , found them and lifted it gently . |
| 13 | He found them and lit one , languidly inhaling the smoke . |
| 14 | Nurse found them and cracked them between her fingernails the way Smallfry sometimes did when he was made to kneel with his head in her lap , breathing her perfume and savouring the rare closeness of her . |
| 15 | A serjeant-at-arms wearing the royal livery stopped them and asked their business before allowing them through . |
| 16 | For instance , I was able to witness the dogs ' problems first-hand as Melanie muzzled them and brought them together into the living room . |
| 17 | The small group of riders spied them and altered their course to meet the patrol . |
| 18 | Some person noticed them and hated them for what they were . ’ |
| 19 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 20 | They would be drawn into the system which mulcted them and bullied them more completely than ever . |
| 21 | And dried them and put them on the rack again . |
| 22 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 23 | In May papal backing was given to her conditions for return ; two legates brought letters urging the younger Despenser to assist the reconciliation of the king and queen , virtually a request for him to abandon the court , but they got no further than Dover where the king interviewed them and threatened them with death if they dared to publish the pope 's letters . |
| 24 | I took the dramatic Poem Maud by Tennyson — all fourteen hundred lines — and learnt them and presented them working with two friends , a designer and a lighting man . |
| 25 | Light though his touch was , she found it infinitely exciting and when his fingertip reached the centre of her lips , she opened them and felt his finger on her tongue . |
| 26 | They arrived with a flourish , laid the cases on the floor , opened them and dragged them around the room to be oh 'd and ah 'd over by the guests . |
| 27 | I 'm not opposed to links when they 're relevant , I 've in fact argued and encouraged them and defended them where they 've taken place and I believe that they were important but I do n't believe in them taking place where they 're irrelevant and er where they er are unhelpful . |
| 28 | With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies ’ ( Eph. 2:14 , 15 ) . |
| 29 | The French windows were open upon the garden , and after a while she saw her best friend Constance vaulting the low fence which separated them and approaching her . |
| 30 | Fred joined them and urged them to come to the cemetery in the funeral cars . |