Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] them [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the challengers , who have a bigger budget and more style than the host body , wanted to open their own village , the ACOC barred them from using the words ‘ America 's Cup ’ . |
| 3 | Sealink and P&O are estimated to have 80 per cent of the market and the undertakings barred them from pooling their services . |
| 4 | The parties accused de Gaulle of preparing a plebiscite ; the General accused them of coveting an irresponsible , omnipotent assembly . |
| 5 | Soviet scholars and journalists could hint in their writings at problems in specific factories or could criticize particular managers or officials , but the censorship prevented them from generalising their observations into a critique of the system . |
| 6 | Third , when the provincial gentry still did not take up the cause of reform with alacrity the tsar bypassed them by appointing a majority of keen reformers to the Editing Commissions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But disabled shoppers protested just yards away that the scheme barred them from using some shops . |
| 9 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |