Example sentences of "[vb pp] them and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 2 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 3 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 4 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 5 | If he drew a chair or a pair of boots he managed to convey the effort of production that went into them , as if he had shaped them and fitted them together himself . |
| 6 | ‘ But they have long since vanished from Ireland , Fergus , and it may be that I will be the last Queen to have seen them and heard them . |
| 7 | Who could have drawn the roots , the branches , the fibres , the tendrils that have fed them and bound them ? |
| 8 | Master Buckingham has polished them and put them away , locked in a casket . |
| 9 | AB still appears shorter than BC even after I have measured them and found them to be equal . |
| 10 | They had the terms already pre-printed for us and we had agreed them and secured our new property before we even received terms from the others . ’ |
| 11 | I could never of got them and got her hair cut cos she did do it slowly and got it level |
| 12 | We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them . |
| 13 | The Shah could then have denounced them and ordered their arrest and execution . |
| 14 | Aunt Margaret must have woken them and organised their washing . |
| 15 | … We 've jilted them and eliminated them and we 've got to find our own solutions for our own peculiar moral problems … |
| 16 | One or two books were missing from the study shelves ; perhaps guests had simply borrowed them and taken them to their rooms . |
| 17 | Harriet had climbed them and had her key in the lock when she heard footsteps on the path behind her and a male voice called : ‘ Excuse me ! ’ |
| 18 | And then , as the job came up with Social Services , and I joined it , I did have some reservations , because I felt that maybe people would see me as sort of having deserted them and joined them , you know , er brilliant movie ? |
| 19 | In both stories the children used their powers to kill the people who had tortured them and used them . |
| 20 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |
| 21 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |