Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buyer failed to collect them and they were stolen from the seller 's warehouse . |
| 2 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 3 | At Tewkesbury Abbey knights in armour appear as themselves — no attempt made to blend them with saints |
| 4 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 5 | She was just imagining Meredith dressed up as a sailor and herself with her arms round his neck , clinging to him as the wind tried to tear them apart , when a man with a tray hung from his neck asked her to buy bootlaces . |
| 6 | It is all to do with the most effective means to ends , at least some of which must be given ( and thus are perhaps open to structural explanations of how the agent came to have them ) . |
| 7 | It was a stormy meeting during which Callaghan was one of those who clashed angrily with Morrison , arguing that the abandonment of the free vote meant pressurising them to change their convictions , or at least to keep them in cold storage . |
| 8 | In truth this troupe did not receive the idolatry that his juveniles had aroused the previous year , but they must have pulled up their silk stockings because when they went on tour later one reviewer did describe them as : |
| 9 | Religion had ruined them all . |
| 10 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 11 | The former Kent all-rounder was ‘ disgusted ’ that news of his sacking — along with batsman Andrew Brown — was announced before the club had told them . |
| 12 | The little car had served them well , despite its temperamental starting mechanism , and he did n't want to stress the engine . |
| 13 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 14 | This time , the Labour party had smoothed most of the inconsistencies and hesitations from its policies for secondary schools : thirteen years of loyal opposition had given them plenty of time and motivation to do that . |
| 15 | It turned out the travel agent had told them their tickets were for tourist class where they would be safe . |
| 16 | No doubt the Duke of Bridgewater 's agent had thought them happy when he collected their rent each week . |
| 17 | This fear had changed them all . |
| 18 | Although one of the children suffered from tuberculosis , the corporation housing department had told them that they were unlikely to be housed . |
| 19 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 20 | Over 50 per cent of respondents also reported that participation in the research had enabled them to think more clearly about development in every dimension ; 75 per cent thought their awareness of health issues and 60 per cent their awareness of self-care and identity had definitely increased . |
| 21 | After the second assessment , social workers were asked whether participation in the research had encouraged them to include other people more fully in decision-making . |
| 22 | Obviously their combined weight had overbalanced them . |
| 23 | Owning the Parrot had given them status . |
| 24 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 25 | The rain and the wind had done them damage . |
| 26 | ’ The wind had reached them , and it was lifting her hair . |
| 27 | Within weeks Stagecoach had turned them into $ 5.1 million and still had half the operation left . |
| 28 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 29 | For the first time no thin rubber insulation had kept them ultimately apart , and Mr Berkley had found the experience oddly moving and disturbing . |
| 30 | She could see the pictures that graced the walls , but her mind refused to acknowledge them . |