Example sentences of "['s] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preacher 's fiery words pursued them as they passed the house of Crutched Friars and turned left down an alleyway towards the Tower . |
| 2 | The band 's aggregate scores gave them the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association championship for their grade . |
| 3 | Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students . |
| 4 | Although part of the same expedition , Gould 's and Sturt 's different objectives led them to work independently . |
| 5 | Britain 's Muslim leaders dismiss them . |
| 6 | Germans were resentful of France 's post-war attempts to keep them under close control , and it could not automatically be expected that they would agree to join European institutions . |
| 7 | The Iranian attacks in September 1980 on Iraq 's southern terminals put them totally out of action . |
| 8 | Whereas the vertical combs of honey-bees have cells on both sides , the paper-wasp 's horizontal combs have them only on the under-surface . |
| 9 | After killing a number of traders and native policemen , and an elder who had counselled prudence , they took to the hills , where a detachment of the King 's African Rifles surprised them and drove them out , with about twenty casualties . |
| 10 | A glance at the Chelsea Gardener 's relevant entries shows them to be concisely informative . |
| 11 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 12 | The males are also known to ‘ rape ’ other males , cementing up the victims ' genital openings to render them incapable of copulation . |
| 13 | The Wolverines ' borrowed silks lent them invaluable seconds wherein to close with those guards and sever their throats before they could fire or even cry a warning . |
| 14 | Since then , the Americans until now have at best ignored Ukrainian efforts to achieve real independence , and the Russians ' occasional attempts to thwart them . |
| 15 | Jehovah 's Witnesses ' religious beliefs precludes them from undertaking compulsory national service . |