Example sentences of "[prep] them [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 2 | And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years . |
| 3 | In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Full assimilation of them into the old upper class would seem unlikely . |
| 6 | Organic molecules , some of them of the same general types as are normally only found in living things , have spontaneously assembled themselves in these flasks . |
| 7 | So , for instance , if you wanted access to a management information system on your Unix computer , to an accounts system running on a mainframe , and to a spreadsheet running locally on the PC , it would be possible to reach all of them via the same windowing front-end . |
| 8 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 9 | We read , for instance , that Spalding ‘ has now a very neat and generally modern appearance , having more than doubled its population and buildings since 1811 , and most of its ancient houses and public buildings have been rebuilt ; many of them during the last twenty-five years ’ . |
| 10 | Richards and King put on 139 for the fifth wicket in just seventy-seven minutes , King annihilating the bowlers to the tune of three sixes and ten fours in his 86 , most of them from the three part-time bowlers who conceded , by coincidence , 86 between them . |
| 11 | It will now be a limited handicap which should mean avoiding the farce of last year when only three went to the post , two of them from the same stable . |
| 12 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 13 | The production of Mark 3 vehicles , at first for the High Speed Trains , began in 1975 , but the proportion of even top-grade express trains composed of them in the early 1980s was stili small . |
| 14 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |
| 15 | He had seven birdies in his best opening round so far , six of them in the first 12 holes , but had trouble getting properly aligned on his long shots . |
| 16 | Since 1947 a total of about 570 has been recorded , about a third of them in the two severe winters of early 1956 ( c. 44 birds ) , and 1962/63 ( c. 154 birds ) . |
| 17 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 18 | Thirty years later , scientists from Rothamsted Experimental Station found the heavy metals persisting in the soil — 85 per cent of them in the top ten inches . |
| 19 | with them during the next two |
| 20 | ‘ We 've done a lot of work with them over the past three weeks . |
| 21 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 22 | I tell them to take their time ; it is hoped that the dog will be with them for the next ten years or more — what are a few minutes ? |
| 23 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 24 | On 28 April , the Caucasians joined Domanov 's Cossacks on the retreat into Austria , surrendered with them to the British 78 Div on 8 May and remained encamped east of Lienz near Dellach . |
| 25 | Afterwards , the old gentleman walked with them to the little white house . |
| 26 | There was a deathly hush , no sound but the beautiful music rising up and swirling above them to the glittering pointed icicles in the illuminated cavernous roof . |
| 27 | For instance , in a dry country , animals and plants work to maintain the fluid content of their cells , work against a natural tendency for water to flow from them into the dry outside world . |
| 28 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 30 | That does not mean we will hear nothing from them for the next 25 days . |