Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often Minoan worshippers tore branches or boughs from a sacred tree and venerated them on altars or planted them in the sockets between sacral horns . |
| 2 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 3 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 4 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 5 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 6 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 7 | Feeling the cold more than ever in my nakedness , I had , reluctantly , dismantled a poor looking cloth-bound work titled A Victorian Psalter , scrunched up the pages and stuffed them into the spaces around my body . |
| 8 | The guerrillas had allegedly smuggled explosives and weapons , including Soviet Katyusha missiles , into Jordan and used them in the attacks . |
| 9 | As they conquered peninsular Italy and Sicily in the third century BC , the Romans took works of art and dedicated them to the gods at Rome . |
| 10 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |
| 11 | When , in 1609 , Galileo constructed his first telescopes and trained them on the heavens , he made dramatic discoveries . |
| 12 | We wound the rollers down towards the root and secured them with the clips provided . |
| 13 | When he reached the table , he wrenched the flowers form their display and threw them into the rows of assembled journalists . |
| 14 | At his command all four took off their masks and tracksuit tops and threw them through the windows on to the garage floor . |
| 15 | Working frantically and fast Franca dragged her clothes out of the wardrobe , carried them onto the landing and threw them down the stairs . |
| 16 | The players tore off their costumes — demons and saints and girls — and pitched them into the flames . |
| 17 | Your mother was a witch 's daughter , born in your world but not in your time — long before that , in a time when they feared witches and hung them from the gallows tree . |
| 18 | The whipmakers plaited their whips through the railings and hung them from the trees . |
| 19 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 20 | She took two pills from a bottle by the bed on which she had thrown herself and crushed them between the pages of Mansfield Park . |
| 21 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 22 | And that 's I I had a quick er look through last year 's sales and and laid out in fact I went through item deliveries and worked them into the months |
| 23 | One of them , a man who had stolen guns from the whites and delivered them to the fighters in the forests — spoke up . |
| 24 | Finally it was Gnaeus Manlius Vulso 's victory over the Galatians in 189 B.C. which justified the intervention of the Romans in Asia Minor and furnished them with the clients they needed in order to control the ambitions of Pergamum . |
| 25 | Paul pulled several cubes of sugar from his pocket and tossed them among the children , and they squealed and fought among themselves , passing the prizes eventually from hand to hand . |
| 26 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 27 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |
| 28 | Once assimilated , these devices and motifs gave the students a feeling of having mastered something , but when Dodie Masterman took over Minton 's illustration class and took them through the basics , she found many of them very inept . |
| 29 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 30 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |