Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battling clans and pursuing Redcoats cursed them for presenting huge obstacles denying fast military movement around the Highlands , whereas the Victorians regarded them as sporting playgrounds and background subject matter for romantic oil paintings of the fat , unattractive aristocracy and their useless families . |
| 2 | Several physiotherapists mentioned that the active nature of the job benefited them physically and a number of people with sensory impairments believed that the nature of the work prevented them from becoming isolated . |
| 3 | These children had completed their preparatory year and were of normal intelligence but severe physical problems prohibited them from entering regular school . |
| 4 | Five subsections were supervised by eight ‘ technical staff ’ , whose title by implication precluded them from taking political decisions . |
| 5 | We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons . |