Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 2 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 3 | They asked : were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible ? |
| 4 | Comparing them with such stupid birds made them less alarming , somehow less powerful . |
| 5 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 6 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 7 | However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft . |
| 8 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 9 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 10 | The top-rope on the first two pitches made them possible , and then we worked upwards , forcing tired bodies to perform and tired minds to keep them safe . |
| 11 | Pickets charged them and there was hand-to-hand fighting . |
| 12 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 13 | The clubs helped them recruit supporters . ’ |
| 14 | My parents hid the Jews in their apple loft for two months , Baptiste said : then when the Germans found them they locked them up in here . |
| 15 | Interviewers visited them weekly with catalogues of brands and prices . |
| 16 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 17 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 18 | ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’ |
| 19 | We 'll never know why their parents deserted them ( maybe pesticides got them ) , but I 'm sure their offspring wo n't lose any sleep over it . |
| 20 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , the dragons got them . |
| 22 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 23 | Because they worked for large , modern firms , the state was closely involved with their employers , which meant their industrial grievances led them into conflict with the state . |
| 24 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 25 | The SS guards routed them : all the men were killed and Jeanne was captured . |
| 26 | Five days later the snow melted , and on the morning of 11 February the second massive flood in seven months overtook them ; it was all very well for the town directory to speak in glowing terms of the River Frome teeming with trout , eels , and all manner of fine fish — but to the inhabitants of Pig Street that wretched river too often spelt disaster and despoliation . |
| 27 | The preacher 's fiery words pursued them as they passed the house of Crutched Friars and turned left down an alleyway towards the Tower . |
| 28 | The enemy picquet that had ambushed the French vanguard was hurrying to the shelter of the wood , but some of them had left their retreat too late and the Dragoons caught them . |
| 29 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 30 | Two passers-by stopped them getting away |