Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] them [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was part of my job to give them a crash course . |
| 2 | I want six pairs of feet and then I 'd have to stand on my head to give them a rest ’ . |
| 3 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 4 | ( 16b ) * I helped them carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 5 | Her attempts to teach them a step was hysterical . |
| 6 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 7 | They not only make an income from their paintings , and the cards from them , but their work gives them the challenge to succeed despite handicap . |
| 8 | The way they set about their job makes them a hell of a hard team to beat . |
| 9 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 10 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 11 | After a long descent the shaft widened a little , and the light of their torches showed them the interior of the mine , the southern end of the tunnellings . |
| 12 | They 're now sitting up in bed , waiting for their aunt to give them a kiss — and looking like little angels , ’ Julie told her , adding with a grin , ‘ which , of course , they are n't ! ’ |
| 13 | Her father bought them a drink and ordered lunch and they wheeled Jennifer 's chair up to one of the small tables that had been set up outside the marquee in the sunshine . |
| 14 | His creditors met on the 28th and they read a letter from their debtor telling them the law was an enemy he could not conquer . |
| 15 | So long as land prices and interest rates remain astronomically high , few will be in a position to buy a holding , however small , with any prospect of their capital paying them a living through genuine farming ( as opposed to exploitation or ‘ mining ’ ) . |
| 16 | Their success gave them a power that everyone wanted to share ; their commercial momentum carried the whole pop world along . |
| 17 | Conrad and Philippa think they are real , and their reality gives them the right to doubt mine . |
| 18 | Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . |
| 19 | Someone whose job allows them the flexibility to attend meetings and participate in programmes |
| 20 | Coffin and Inspector Paul Lane were talking privately over a drink in the Victory Arms , a pub whose windows gave them a view of the sails of the Cutty Sark . |
| 21 | The special position of the chief constable has been discussed in Chapter 4 , but there are other officers whose position grants them a degree of independent authority . |
| 22 | They did not much like Oliver Cromwell and his dangerous toleration of loose religion , but his regime gave them the chance to start again . |
| 23 | One turned on its back and presented its claws , the other veered off , and Creggan flew between them , his great wings sweeping past them , his speed leaving them gasping , his power leaving them a memory they would never forget . |
| 24 | There was another Moses , a Midianite , who introduced the god Yahweh , a local volcanic god — ‘ a coarse , narrow-minded , local god , violent and bloodthirsty , he had promised his followers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |