Example sentences of "them [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The portable screens are designed to fit round the witness box when needed to block the child 's view of the defendant but allow them to see magistrates and lawyers in the case . |
| 2 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 3 | The excitement , suspense , and danger which seems the lot of the police on celluloid feeds into the definitions many of Easton 's section police give to their work experience , and the supposed similarity of this experience leads them to see police films and television programmes as an accurate portrayal , to be watched avidly because of this shared world . |
| 4 | Make an independent selection from a comprehensive range of reference materials , eg encyclopaedia , adult dictionary or data bank , retrieve information from them using techniques such as skim-reading ; and synthesise information from different parts of a text or different texts . |
| 5 | Make an independent and discriminating selection from a range of reference materials ; retrieve information from them using techniques such as skim-reading ; evaluate and synthesise information from different parts of a text or different texts . |
| 6 | Make an independent and discriminating selection from a range of reference materials ; retrieve information from them using techniques such as skim-reading ; evaluate and synthesise information from different parts of a text or different texts . |
| 7 | Make an independent and discriminating selection from a range of reference materials ; retrieve information from them using techniques such as skim-reading ; evaluate and synthesise information from different parts of a text or different texts . |
| 8 | Among them were women between 70 and 80 years of age , some of them using crutches . |
| 9 | It is hoped that this will make people feel safer and encourage them to report crimes . |
| 10 | Ideas include allowing them to issue shares up to 49% of capital , to turn non-voting certificuts d'investissement into full shares , to sell subsidiaries or create cross-holdings with non-French European companies . |
| 11 | Children from eight to 13 can join in various activities , among them bug hunts , face-painting and natural sculpture . |
| 12 | The beautiful and promiscuous Muslim women of the Maldives , for example , he thought shockingly immodest , and though Battuta frequently ‘ ordered them to wear clothes … |
| 13 | More importantly , it was now divided into five departments on an essentially geographical basis , three of them handling relations with distinct groups of European states and the other two those with Asiatic ones ( China , Persia , the khanates of central Asia and the little Georgian kingdoms in the Caucasus ) . |
| 14 | They concluded that God was calling them to plant churches . |
| 15 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 16 | The company says its four other Magnox stations , which have similar steel pressure vessels , are not threatened by the same defect and the NII has allowed them to continue operations . |
| 17 | I had them stopped ages ago . ’ |
| 18 | There 's no panacea ; er it will take us a little while to get our programmes in place and to get them producing results . |
| 19 | Let them make programmes for each other . |
| 20 | It will target specifically chosen people in an effort to help them make links with the changing climate . |
| 21 | Numbers of them became administrators or held important posts . |
| 22 | They went around the world with backpacks and no money , and they left home and lived together without getting married , and many of them became superstars when they were still only in their teens . |
| 23 | and to permit them to carry bows and arrows for the defence of themselves and their custody , as is the custom of the King 's foresters , and the foresters of others elsewhere in England . |
| 24 | The hostel even had its own fleet of camels on its regular Hillaby-style treks , used them to carry supplies or provide a mount for weary walkers . |
| 25 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 26 | Integrity expands and deepens the role individual citizens can play in developing the public standards of their community because it requires them to treat relations among themselves as characteristically , not just spasmodically , governed by these standards . |
| 27 | Let them tell you , let them paint pictures . |
| 28 | If so , encourage them to paint pictures as they listen to music or try using art games . |
| 29 | A study in which the majority of the subjects suffered from mental aberrations of one sort or another required them to perform tasks continuously , and in isolation , for forty-two hours.4 Three of these ten subjects experienced actual hallucinations , and seven of them suffered perceptual distortions or illusions . |
| 30 | You 'd be surprised , some of them make bookings with the beautician and hairdresser even before they come on board . ’ |