Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] them [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 I have acquainted them with the Buiseness and they Do nt seem willin to pay , but you may answer this to me if you please , but we now Declair off and will have no more to do with that Biseness , yrs
32 Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania .
33 Kendall has doggedly maintained that , despite Everton 's dreadful run which has dragged them towards the bottom of the Premier League , there is nothing intrinsically wrong with his side .
34 There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore .
35 The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle .
36 Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches .
37 Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft .
38 ‘ However , in the economic revolution which has overtaken them with the collapse of the Soviet Union I can see problems looming for them in future .
39 Their entry into the Town Boys appeared to rest not only on the fact that they had gained reputations but also on their ability to maintain such reputations in the absence of the symbolic dress and tokens of status which had assisted them in the past .
40 They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here .
41 In places vehicles which had preceded them along the track had exposed the sterile moss .
42 I believe that we achieve this very successfully , and when you bear in mind the pressure under which the Magistracy have been in recent times , with erm industrial action , demonstrations , which have brought them to the forefront of the attention , I think it 's a remarkably achievement that the Magistrates have come through this with the public in general terms satisfied with the performance of Magistrates in the discharge of these very onerous functions .
43 This win over their local rivals now means Rovers ' record under Big Mal 's vibrant leadership is one defeat followed by a run of one draw and three victories which have lifted them off the bottom of the table .
44 ‘ It was a brilliant performance , ’ enthused Toby Mullins , the ladies ' coach who has led them to the championship in his first season in charge .
45 In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network .
46 She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys
47 It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom .
48 But we 've also had an artist from the Art Week event , which the Rainforest Festival overlaps with going into a chosen school , with a member of Friends of the Earth , we give them a talk about rainforest , and they do the , I do n't know if you 've seen them in the buses , the sort of advertising slots , we 've got 80 of those slots on the buses throughout the rainforest festival , and the children are actually drawing pictures for them .
49 ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call .
50 Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever .
51 Can I ask you how you 've provided them with the data to actually produce the erm
52 But you , you 've got them on the report , we could just write the arrears amount
53 Not them other little things cos they know you 've got them at the school .
54 No you 've got them in the bag .
55 Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go .
56 In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold .
57 But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way .
58 She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days .
59 By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly .
60 She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them .
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