Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
2 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
3 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
4 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
5 | The Jacobite sympathies of the family might well have prejudiced them in the eyes of the early Georges , but George III , especially after falling out with Coutts , had an affectionate and very special relationship with Drummonds . |
6 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
7 | Some readers may therefore have identified them as the police officers referred to in our article of May 13 , 1986 . |