Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 2 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 3 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 4 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 5 | Therese suddenly appeared above them on the stage . |
| 6 | Information is only appended to them in the form of agreement comments during their various states . |
| 7 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 8 | The ones , most people ca n't do anything with those , they 're just paralysed by them in the States , and then we have project management forms . |
| 9 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
| 10 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 11 | People thus switch between them as the balance of advantage changes . |
| 12 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 14 | Indigenous groups gained three seats in the Senate — two specially allotted to them under the new constitution and one elected . |
| 15 | ‘ Heavens , ’ exclaimed Sara , still standing by them with the trolley , ‘ I did n't realise it was so late ! |
| 16 | and maybe like read to them at the end of the day or whatever . |
| 17 | They should not undertake the sung parts traditionally assigned to them in the Offices and in the Eucharist . |
| 18 | They now carry deeper theological meanings , which were probably given to them by the Church in the period of the oral tradition . |
| 19 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 20 | Participants were delighted to be able to welcome our President , Lady Braithwaite and Sir Franklin Braithwaite and also to have with them for the day Hilda Hewitt , Edith Harlow and Jean Parmiter . |
| 21 | If one remembers that the rebels had sympathizers in London , although these may have been partly alienated from them by the disorders , it is all the more remarkable how quickly the city authorities reasserted their control and obtained substantial support . |
| 22 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 23 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 24 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 25 | But , putting to use the superior education unwittingly handed to them by the state or paid for by their parents , they soon displaced the handfuls of old faithfuls . |
| 26 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 27 | This research is concerned with the nature of the writing submitted to the Mass-Observation Archive by a range of ‘ Observers ’ in response to ‘ directives ’ periodically sent to them by the Archive . |
| 28 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 29 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 30 | His wife packed a box with various goodies for Leonora to take to Penry , then walked with them to the jetty , and waved them off on the Sea-Fret , a sturdy fishing-boat a lot newer than Penry 's . |