Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 2 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 3 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 4 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 5 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 6 | At least this time she had some help loading them into the van . |
| 7 | The majority of Athenian citizens were working men who needed the meagre payment that was eventually made for carrying out public duties to compensate them for the loss of daily earnings . |
| 8 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 9 | The ground was largely excavated by hand , and shovelled into small tipping trucks , which were then hauled on rails by horses.4 ; Excavated material from the lower level was raised to form the top of the planes and a stretch of embanked canal to connect them with the summit pound . |
| 10 | As the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) and his Front-Bench team are so singularly ill-informed , why does not my right hon. Friend invite them to the Department for a teach-in , when they could be given the true facts and figures ? |
| 11 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 12 | Since some people regard them as the ultimate madness and evil they deem it to be their moral right to break laws , mostly in a non-violent manner , as a form of protest . |
| 13 | Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students . |
| 14 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 15 | ‘ That old Plumpton has them in the baths — an hour , private-like , once a week . ’ |
| 16 | They and others who employ what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy appear , then , to believe that this model insulates them from the arguments I have been discussing . |
| 17 | Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered . |
| 18 | This Summer took them on the festival trail , with impressive shows at Féile and Reading to their credit . |
| 19 | Kuwait is urging the commission to encourage all countries holding frozen Iraqi assets to transfer them to the commission to meet claims . |
| 20 | The same old manservant ushered them into the hall . |
| 21 | The same information will help members of a project team to understand what is going on , and why , strengthening their contribution and going some way to prepare them for the project management role when it comes their way . |
| 22 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 23 | Alice glanced at her own hands , small , neat , the nails immaculately well maintained , and covered with a transparent varnish to protect them from the world . |
| 24 | Pulling his coat open , he pushed his hand into his trouser pocket , and taking out two half crowns dropped them into the tin . |
| 25 | Although few performers really enjoy working under the glare of high-power lights , their use is sometimes essential , and the most acceptable way to use them for the illumination of small areas is to employ the technique known as bounce-lighting . |
| 26 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 27 | In compliance with IEATP Claims procedures The Lead Organization shall co-ordinate claims from the Non-academic Parties to this agreement submit them to the funding authority and on receipt of payments promptly forward the requisite sums to the other Parties . |
| 28 | All sailors throughout the year need light , waterproof anoraks to protect them from the chilling effect of light spray in strong winds . |
| 29 | It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis . |
| 30 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |