Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 2 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 3 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 4 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 5 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 6 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 7 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 8 | We began sorting them into different area sizes as we were getting confused with those we had and did n't have . |
| 9 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 10 | The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents . |
| 11 | Traders were allowed to store unsold items and the Trade Ministry offered to buy them at reasonable prices . |
| 12 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 13 | The early industrialists were proud of their achievements and liked to have them in full view . |
| 14 | In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction . |
| 15 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 16 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 17 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 18 | But she had earned them on sheer merit . |
| 19 | The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently . |
| 20 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 21 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 22 | These councils ' low-key approach had saved them from widespread media hostility , but it also meant that awareness of the funded projects was limited to those who were already , to some extent , part of lesbian and gay networks . |
| 23 | Others in the FLNC had attributed them to anti-nationalist elements in Corsica linked to the ( Gaullist ) Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the Left Radical Movement ( MRG ) . |
| 24 | At first , Lucien had watched them in awed fascination , hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule . |
| 25 | Thus in D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 the court was willing to permit the NSPCC to withhold the name of their informant but in British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 the defendants were ordered to disclose the name of the plaintiff 's employee who had supplied them with confidential information belonging to the plaintiff . |
| 26 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 27 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 28 | A final question was asked about the barriers that had prevented companies exporting to Japan or that had inhibited them from improving performance . |
| 29 | She had seen people die , she had seen them give birth , she had chopped them into little pieces : more significantly , with Charles she had achieved orgasm , which she had never managed with Edgar . |
| 30 | It meant that women could work towards defining their own autonomous sexuality , independent of the social institutions of marriage and the family which had fixed them in oppressive relationships with men . |