Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] them [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation .
2 This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory .
3 Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable .
4 Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ?
5 Webs of bilateral deals protect them from the full brunt of competition .
6 More cubs will be reared by cheetahs whose genes equip them with the optimum compromise between running speed , milk production and all the other calls on their budget .
7 The girls join them for a final splash in the pool .
8 Low temperatures place them at no obvious disadvantage — they have evolved physiological systems that allow them to move just as fast as temperate or tropical fish , and they are no easier to catch .
9 For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field .
10 The manager and waiters treat them to a respectful embalming .
11 Their bosses view them as no more than glorified typists and they are denied career opportunities .
12 But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way .
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