Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] them [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bond began to be formed when they asked Martin to place protection for them on an icy pitch just below the summit . |
| 2 | Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ? |
| 3 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 4 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 5 | They certainly wo n't complain if Harlequins field a weakened side against them in the held-over match on Easter Monday . |
| 6 | He remembered a homespun breast rough under his sleepy cheek , and an arm that cradled him , and the steady rocking of the horse under them on the long ride into the fringes of Wales that day ; and suddenly at parting the terrible knowledge in him that , if he let go of Master Harry now , he would never get him back again . |
| 7 | To be imprisoned side by side with them in the male domain made them look forward beyond Karlinsky 's address to the regular Saturday-night social in the communal hall next door when they would be able to get together , relax and talk without constraint . |
| 8 | provide an opportunity for the debriefing of students , discussing both the work supervisor 's and tutor 's assessment of them on an individual basis . |
| 9 | In 1980–81 , for example , there were 62,000 students in Wales following non-advanced courses , the majority of them in the 35 colleges , as compared with 14,000 on advanced courses . |
| 10 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 11 | ‘ We 've done a lot of work with them over the past three weeks . |
| 12 | New Leicestershire 's offer of a two-year contract , starting in 1993 , has been accepted and , in the meantime , he has made a prolific return with them in the one-day competitions . |
| 13 | He bestowed his charm upon them like a beautiful and unexpected present : since they were old , the giving of it flattered him , not them . |
| 14 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 15 | But there had been no reference to them in the detailed report of Surrendered Ex-Enemy Personnel sent up by 5 Corps to Eighth Army two days earlier , on 15 May [ KP 112 ] . |
| 16 | ‘ The traditional way to eat peas is to buy them separately and put salt and vinegar on them for a sweet and sour taste . ’ |
| 17 | The result was a schism by the Thompson-Chesson group and the formation by them of the short-lived North of England Anti-Slavery and India Reform League . |
| 18 | A first win at home is a must for Steve Coppell 's boys against Nottingham Forest , the only team below them in the Premier Division who have yet to win away . |
| 19 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 20 | At first Creggan had mantled at these free birds , raising his great wings and lunging his beak towards them in a threatening way . |
| 21 | ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal . |
| 22 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 23 | With the eternal and infernal Beeston breeze behind them in the second half Nottingham certainly put in a tremendous finish against Northampton . |
| 24 | Collegians had a slight breeze behind them in the second half , but were n't able to take control . |
| 25 | I do nt know why they do nt just leave an outside broadcast team with them on a permanent basis . |
| 26 | Obviously it 'll not be done for the launch but he 's made a smart job of it it looks really smart done it in yellow , erm and really later on this week I 'm just tidying up , I 've got to go and see F I B just to make sure everything 's in place with them in the mounted section and really this time a week tomorrow it 'll be launched . |
| 27 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 28 | Now Wasim and Waqar have earned their place alongside them in the fast bowling Hall of Fame with 43 wickets between them in the series . |
| 29 | There are longueurs in Act I , but he skilfully deflects attention from them by a deft account of the ballet music and by letting us admire the much improved state of the Royal Opera chorus . |
| 30 | The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance . |