Example sentences of "[det] [prep] them [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's simply that six legs is the smallest number of legs you can have such that you can take exactly half of them off the ground and not fall over . |
| 2 | Do they include that in the scheme , some of them on the rate , I wo n't bother with that anyway it 's not our problem |
| 3 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 4 | You know er you see some of them with the apron that just goes round the waist . |
| 5 | Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class . |
| 6 | Not only that , it pulled some of them off the gate and threw them away . |
| 7 | But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages , some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone . |
| 8 | They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’ |
| 9 | Can you get some of them into the hall ? |
| 10 | If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] . |
| 11 | In his earlier work Hare seemed to believe that there were alternative moral stances to the world , each of which might be equally rational , though we may quite properly condemn some of them from the perspective of the morality which we ourselves advocate . |
| 12 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 13 | Blisters rose immediately , some of them in the shape of the ring . |
| 14 | Each indicates quite specifically how a following statement will build on the preceding one , and we list some of them in the grid on the following pages . |
| 15 | Initially no effort was made to evict CPL officials and staff from the occupied buildings , but on April 20 a communist party printing works under military guard since March 30 was stormed by troops who evicted the staff , beating up some of them in the process . |
| 16 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |
| 17 | And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side . |
| 18 | Which although I 've heard before does say something about them … also , I met a few of them on the train up from London … |
| 19 | Oh well you 've quite enjoyed that and you 've had a few of them by the smell of you . |
| 20 | The defendant pointed to the close relationship of those witnesses and Paulette , the background of tension and domestic strife and the animosity of each of them towards the defendant and stressed the ease with which their evidence could have been fabricated and the absence of corroboration . |
| 21 | Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become . |
| 22 | The Panel found that the persons involved in the case were unlikely to comply with the standards expected in the conduct of UK takeovers and consequently reported its conclusions to the SIB , the SROs and RPBs for appropriate action by each of them in the light of their several cold shouldering rules . |
| 23 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 24 | and Macpherson of Cluny J. ) given on 18 January 1991 refusing them the relief claimed in their applications for judicial review of decisions made in relation to each of them by the Secretary of State for the Home Department . |
| 25 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 26 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 27 | Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ? |
| 28 | But although it was Tip 's and Arnold 's maiden success , it does not rate as highly with either of them as the victory at Troon the following year . |
| 29 | Running back down the avenue , daffodil leaves yellowing on its verges , young beech leaves playing with the light overhead , Nicandra felt purged of the morning 's unfortunate happenings : of all of them except the thrust of horror that had pierced her before the death of a lamb . |
| 30 | ‘ All of them with the exception of Christine . ’ |