Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] them [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Landlords are , however , subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and can not include unreasonable covenants in leases which seek to relieve them of their own common law or statutory obligations . |
| 2 | Most of them are performed by women , and most women continue to perform them into their old age , whether or not they have formerly had paid employment . |
| 3 | Looking round at people today and you mi , try to imagine them in their own home setting you know ? |
| 4 | More generally Pazzi 's introduction calls down fire and brimstone on those who damage works of art or try to appropriate them for their own collections . |
| 5 | Mothers were twice as likely to scold the older children and tell them to stop ; with younger children , however , they tended not to scold but to distract them and try to interest them in something other than the source of conflict . |
| 6 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 7 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact I love to have them around me all the time ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I love to have them around me all the time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I love to have them around me all the time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You can scoff , ’ said the visitor of San Severo , ‘ but I 've seen them with my own eyes . ’ |
| 12 | Alert them to the fact that we 're on to something , if they know we 've out-guessed them in their stupid game , then we do n't know what they might do . |
| 13 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 14 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 15 | ‘ I have seen them with my own eyes . |
| 16 | It helps if you have seen them in their own surroundings and get an impression of the sort of person they are . |
| 17 | I 'm not bothered about them you 've got tre you can go in the countryside and see that you 've got trees at well a lot of us have got them outside our own houses . |
| 18 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 19 | What I have tried to show in this section is that before we can fully understand the particular historical genres which appear under the labels of programme categories , and , even more importantly , before we can understand the forms of subjectivity which they imply , we need to place them in their historical and institutional relationship to the theoretical genre of novelistic narrative . |
| 20 | All this contrasts vividly with those many families that have not taken on board self-fulfilment for their children , but have left them to their own devices : the ‘ latch-key ’ children , those out in the streets , members of territorial gangs . |
| 21 | Once you have your list of items , you have to link them to your own peg words . |
| 22 | erm so er it 's sometimes possible to borrow from the university but they usually , they usually make it very difficult for one so er oh thanks , erm so erm anyway because with a thing like people 's accounts of dreams you may want to sort of go back and look at them , you know , sort of how people have expressed them in their own words , they may have er you know produced some nice interesting quotes or something like that |
| 23 | Only Spurs have beaten them in their last nine visits to the capital . |