Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] them the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After , after er er I 've done with them the travel head lad takes over , he does all the ol the tra the race course , you know . |
| 2 | Okay you 've talked to them the phone right and you 're gon na go and sign them up . |
| 3 | The sharpest contrast is with migrants who have brought with them the expectation that sons will bring their wives into the homes of their parents , where in some sense the wives will be under the authority of their mothers-in-law . |
| 4 | If you can once get into Children a Love of Credit , and an Apprehension of Shame and Disgrace , you have put into them the true principle … |
| 5 | We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask . |
| 6 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 7 | In most cases these families are poor , but they have brought with them the petit-bourgeois values of financially better-off days , and this has led to an apparently unquenchable materialism . |
| 8 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 9 | Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening ! |