Example sentences of "and [vb past] [noun pl] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In that context it has — like all good marketing-oriented companies — anticipated needs in world markets , and devised services to meet them . |
| 2 | Make sure it has been made with ripstop nylon and has good quality spars and reinforced pockets to receive them . |
| 3 | Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles . |
| 4 | Nara and the twins were endlessly fascinated with the little , blind , half-bald creatures , and spent hours picking them up and playing with them . |
| 5 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 6 | This figure is reminiscent of the Palaeolithic hunters of Western Europe , who dressed in untreated animal skins and wore antlers to enable them to approach the animals they were hunting ( see p. 131 and fig. 14.13 ) . |
| 7 | He watched , and saw others purchase them without difficulty . |
| 8 | Throughout the Sixties , the Manager and his Chief Engineer Alan Williams struggled to make the trams economic and resisted attempts to close them down completely . |
| 9 | Long white-spotted tails and barred breasts identified them ; then they ‘ cuckoo'ed gently . |
| 10 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 11 | ‘ You were lucky , ’ she wrote to Molly once in answer to her sister 's repeated urgings that she should come over to Leeds where there were plenty of young Jewish men who were starting businesses and wanted wives to help them . |