Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] them [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their total vote of 1,510 was 600 votes short of Conaty ( Independent ) with 2134 , and no amount of vote transfer between them could have postponed the elimination of any of them until after Conaty . |
| 2 | McLeish had to remind himself that the dead girl behind them would have felt none of this dank chill . |
| 3 | The bond between them might help to heal old family conflicts . |
| 4 | Either way , it would damage the walls , and Astorre and Pesaro between them might manage to scale them . |
| 5 | The present trend of setting up courses only in response to staff shortages will be superseded in the future by any forthcoming legal requirement , and so the administration of courses and the rationale behind them will have to change accordingly . |
| 6 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 7 | He seeks to provide a substantive characterization of the concept of reality which will enable him to do two things : first , to show how certain rules and procedures are logically correct , how employment of them will suffice to guide us towards knowledge of reality ; secondly , to show how it can be rational for a self-controlled agent to seek to contribute to knowledge of reality . |
| 8 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 9 | Now the whole bloody lot of them will have gone to ground and the gods know when we 'll get another chance like this . ’ |
| 10 | These poor people have done no harm to anybody and a lot of them will have fought wars for a lot of these same people who are now deciding to put them out of their homes in the twilight of their lives . |
| 11 | A letter from them would have done perfectly well . |
| 12 | Some feel too vulnerable to cope with having boyfriends at all , at least not for some time , and almost all are determined that any man who shows an interest in them will have to accept and love their child too . |