Example sentences of "[prep] them [conj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 2 | He was worried about them and by the time he came down the gang had gone . |
| 3 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 4 | Well , you do n't wan na worry about them because at the end of the day , I mean if if that was absolutely desperate I shall turn round and say well I 'm sorry I 've bloody got to and that 's it ! |
| 5 | If a Simulium black fly is infected with nematode worms , their larvae migrate into its muscles , then into its salivary glands , and finally , when it feeds from a host , pass out of its mouthparts or burst out through them and into the mammal host . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and their cats will be looked after too — one only hopes Daisy wo n't put in more food for them than for the humans . ’ |
| 7 | That is a disaster not only for them but for the nation , which is robbed of their abilities . |
| 8 | Tirana home service radio initially denounced the hunger strike as having " nothing to do with a loyal strike struggle " , but in subsequent days the radio detailed the hunger strikers ' demands and deteriorating health , and by June 1 had swung round to emotional support for them and for the UITUA . |
| 9 | My Lords , er would my Noble Friend , subjects are nevertheless best taught by those who have a sympathy for them and in the light of the fact that eighty per cent of er school pupils in the primary sector are taught , th all subjects by the same teacher . |
| 10 | His news for them as to the enemy was as anticipated , but with an unexpected postscript . |
| 11 | It was a habit which helped to avoid any major personal quarrels between them until after the demise of the Government . |
| 12 | Walter , down below them and with the waters getting perilously close to the tops of his waders , says , ‘ Something 's rotten under here . |
| 13 | Maintenance of the driver and command files for the process is very much the LIFESPAN Manager 's responsibility , and what better way to keep track of them than inside the process to which they refer . |
| 14 | And and he took quite a lot of them but in the time that |
| 15 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 16 | On 10 September 1981 ( the date of his acquittal ! ) , an action was brought by the company against Mr Fowler and the eight former employees alleging an unlawful conspiracy and breach of implied terms of contract that they would faithfully serve Faccenda Chicken Ltd and ‘ would not use confidential information and/or trade secrets gained by them and each of them whilst in the company 's employment to the disadvantage or detriment of the company , whether during the currency of such employment or after its cessation ’ . |
| 17 | I invite the hon. Gentleman to reflect again on his knee-jerk reaction to our proposals and to tell us frankly whether he is in favour of them and on the side of the citizen , the user of services and the taxpayer or on the side of Rodney Bickerstaffe , the Confederation of Health Service Employees and NUPE . |
| 18 | She was telling me all about all of them and on the roof . |
| 19 | How do we know this , however , of human artefacts ? — simply because we have had repeated experience of them and of the people who make them . |
| 20 | From the sound of them and from the way they are used , you have probably got quite a good idea of what you think they mean . |
| 21 | There were several behind them and to the south , but on their right , to the north , there were many more . |
| 22 | ‘ When we played Albania three weeks ago in Tirana , I made plans to deal with them but on the day they fielded a much different side to the one I expected . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ When we played Albania three weeks ago in Tirana , I made plans to deal with them but on the day they fielded a much different side to the one I expected . ’ |
| 24 | One can not agree with them that in the graveyard at Kildalton there " are two large , but clumsily sculptured stone crosses . " |
| 25 | One can not agree with them that in the graveyard at Kildalton there " are two large , but clumsily sculptured stone crosses . " |
| 26 | Since they were provided to enable the binder to collect the various gatherings or sections in the right order before putting the covers round , much more care was exercised with them than with the page numbering . |
| 27 | He had not been with them since before the war and , as the youngest son , he saw his older brother and sisters passing away from him : Ada had died in 1943 , and now Henry was seriously ill with leukaemia . |
| 28 | After a good deal of success in his 13 years of moto cross , Zeelenberg would have gone with them but for the advice of manager Jan Huberts , who still manages Zeelenberg and the Sharp Samson team . |
| 29 | According to him they had brought a great deal of food with them and despite the loss of Crane 's saddlebags and wallet there seemed to be no shortage of provisions . |
| 30 | Much more promising avenues are opened up by those schools of thought that combine a description of the structure of texts with an account of the knowledge and attitudes that readers bring with them and of the process to which they subject them : some versions of structuralism ; and phenomenological and related theories , which study the process by which readers create meaning in a text with much more attention to the text itself than Richards ever allowed . |