Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | She was too exhausted to resist and showed them into the living room . |
2 | While half of her brain hated and despised them for the job they were doing , the other half acknowledged that at least part of her present mission was to buy newspapers and read what was said . |
3 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
4 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
5 | I went and fetched them off the sheet counter . |
6 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
7 | Her concern that the sisters living a life of contemplative discipline should in one respect be totally unrestricted — in their access to , and possession of , books — and the fact that , evidently , the brothers of the order both encouraged and instructed them in the knowledge of theological traditions , illuminates , and is symptomatic of , the problems faced by women who wished to live out their faith and give an articulate account of their experience . |
8 | They were in the collection of the local parish priest Johann Georg Martin Dursch ( 1800–1881 ) until King Wilhelm I bought and donated them to the town in 1850 . |
9 | Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage . |
10 | It was this desire to win that dragged and sucked them into the war . |
11 | She rounded up her charges before the others began to move and willed them along the path to the car park . |
12 | At home she unloaded and stacked them in the basement . |