Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 31 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 32 | All the rhetoric about redoubling efforts to fulfil the plan or striding confidently towards the future in imitation of the Great Leader was intended in practice to pacify the people rather than to stimulate them . |
| 33 | Hence , a distribution of dividends from the company 's reserves may be more likely to reduce prices than to support them . |
| 34 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 35 | Please return them as soon as possible , rather than using them for storage . |
| 36 | By the time you 've you 've moved them all rather than drawing them all in again then you run the con activity and swop back . |
| 37 | Chasing prey through the tree-tops is much more hazardous than pursuing them along the ground , as this raccoon-hunting puma is discovering ( below ) . |
| 38 | So , rather than binning them directly , I am passing them to you ( and your Convocation Office colleagues ) . |
| 39 | In fact , when she came to consider , she never felt that there was any reply that she could make to Miss Coldharbour , whose remarks frequently had the air of concluding conversations rather than opening them . |
| 40 | None of these impairments appeared when the patient was asked to read words and non-words rather than to spell them . |
| 41 | Without such a review there is a serious danger that existing documentation problems may simply be automated along with the data , thus perpetuating rather than resolving them . |
| 42 | Sir Harold left his collection to the Corporation of the City of London , but rather than include them in the Guildhall Art Gallery , he left instructions that , due to the fact that he believed his pictures looked best in domestic surroundings , the pictures be installed in the Lord Mayor 's residence , where , unfortunately , they will mostly be inaccessible to the public . |
| 43 | I 'd rather spend money doing that before they go out than send them out and the bloody things to have to come back again . |
| 44 | In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them . |
| 45 | Poststructuralism , which in its own way also takes part in that history of Western Marxism , differs only insofar as it foregrounds the implications of the theoretical difficulties involved rather than repressing them in pursuit of the unrealized ideal . |
| 46 | But there were also a lot of people who felt that the presence of er of police in twos and threes , actually inflamed problems in the flats rather than cooled them down . |
| 47 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 48 | Unfortunately , KIO seems to have cost jobs , rather than created them . |
| 49 | ‘ And that would be quicker than starving them ? ’ |
| 50 | However , many exporters import the materials and components used in their exported goods rather than buy them locally . |
| 51 | And Northumberland had chosen , rather than pursue them with a force then quite inadequate , to gather his and his sons ' levies and wait for the marauders to return . |
| 52 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 53 | Resources should be used to equip people to act in their own interests rather than to pauperise them by treating them as dependents . |
| 54 | So , if you 're interested in doing business with people who encourage you to spread your wings rather than clip them , why not make a date to come and see ours ? |
| 55 | It is also good at containing costs and farming out its staff to work on site rather than keeping them in expensive offices of its own . |
| 56 | This is much easier than keeping them in piles in a cupboard or closet . |
| 57 | Everyone is agreed that looking after patients in the community is a more expensive option than keeping them inside a hospital , where all the facilities are available under one roof . |
| 58 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 59 | She knew better than to urge them to dress in the fashions Lachlan had learned abroad ; but all the maids were driven frantic sewing silk and linen , gold thread , fur and leather . |
| 60 | rather than choke them fathoms deep ? |