Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 3 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 4 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 5 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 6 | I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall . |
| 7 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 8 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 9 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 10 | The doctor was walking with them towards the private rooms . |
| 11 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 12 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 13 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 14 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 15 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 16 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
| 17 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 18 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 19 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 20 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 22 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 23 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 24 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 25 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 26 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 27 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 28 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 29 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 30 | So far , we have argued that people in modern Britain give great importance to their immediate family , that is their husband or wife and children living with them in the same house . |