Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] them [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides agree that these behaviours lead to much if not most of the premature mortality as well as chronic morbidity of adults today , and that a reduction in them would lead to reduced mortality and an enhanced quality of life . |
| 2 | A gang of them would meet there , graduating from Meccano and toy farms to risqué games of Dare , illicit cigarettes , speculation about sex . |
| 3 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 4 | Many pioneers of women 's education made it quite clear that they did not accept Emily Davies ' view that girls might be trained in the same way as boys , and argued that they should be given an opportunity , by way of , for example , domestic science classes , to prepare for the lives a majority of them would lead as wives and mothers . |
| 5 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 6 | A family member who is addicted to " fixing " others and being a caretaker for them can hinder the chances or primary sufferers finding progress or recovery for themselves . |
| 7 | When boys reach puberty , in primitive societies today as in ancient Greece , a group of them will go away into the mountains , jungle , or other hostile environment to undergo hardship and trials which , if successfully endured , allow them to return to society at a higher level , as adults . |
| 8 | The idea was that a group of them should take back the second of the Shahs planes to Teheran , contact those military commanders known to be most loyal to the Shah and convince them to hijack Khomeinis plane when , as the assumed he would , he flew back to Teheran from Paris . |
| 9 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 10 | For the devout Christian , there has been no need to reconcile fact and faith , history and theology , simply because he has never had any reason to believe that a distinction between them might exist . |
| 11 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 12 | Presenter Gerry Ryan will talk to the children about school activities , and a number of them will perform songs and poems . |
| 13 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 14 | These will need to be defined , and then some means of assembling a list of them will have to be found . |
| 15 | A phone call or a letter to them may set your investigations off on a completely new heading and give you further experts whose evidence would be helpful to you . |
| 16 | A letter from them would have done perfectly well . |
| 17 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 18 | ‘ She used to make them run round getting things for her not my father ; he used to make her get things for him but a lot of them would run up and get her cardigan for her . ’ |
| 19 | So I mean , maybe they need a course in theory all the more for that reason , I do n't know , I think a lot of them would have real problems with it . |
| 20 | These poor people have done no harm to anybody and a lot of them will have fought wars for a lot of these same people who are now deciding to put them out of their homes in the twilight of their lives . |
| 21 | In fact , a lot of them could see little point in the movie at all . |
| 22 | And the u a couple of them would come , a black and a white would be here and no bother at all . |
| 23 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 24 | You see with these signs and symptoms remember you do n't have to have the whole lot a couple of them will give you an idea that this person is concussed . |
| 25 | Anyone wanting to find if there is a judgment against them should contact the Registry at 173-175 Cleveland Street , London W1P 5PE . |