Example sentences of "[prep] them [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must .
2 Between them they will pick up an aggregate £1.9m to cover early termination of their service agreements .
3 I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night …
4 If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy .
5 The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope .
6 So some of them you can work out buy if you know what a transformer does , it steps down all of the current , it reduces the voltage .
7 Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down .
8 I would have liked to have checked at once on the state of the horses , but I supposed if there were something wrong with any of them I would hear soon enough .
9 Underneath them I 'll write down what to do .
10 With them you can buy just about whatever your little capitalist heart desires .
11 If plants have anything wrong with them it may have already been there when they were obtained , or it is a sign that they are not being grown in the right conditions .
12 ‘ But without them it will look much better , I promise , and if we take out these awful shoulder-pads … ’
13 I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ?
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