Example sentences of "them [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ John Bryan was the surrogate father to them during a most impressionable time . |
| 2 | This made things difficult for them during the aggressively secular phase of the French Revolution , when Itxassou in particular fell foul of the regime . |
| 3 | She , she , looks upon them as a thoroughly disposable commodity . |
| 4 | Okay does anybody object to those minutes or are we willing to pass them as a pretty accurate account |
| 5 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
| 6 | Mark poses alongside them as a theatrically seedy rock-hack for the all-seeing lens of Kevin Cummins . |
| 7 | Today he would join them as a fully fledged student himself . |
| 8 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 9 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 10 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 11 | Not if you plan to soak them for a very large fee . |
| 12 | On the application so to vary the implied undertaking , the applicants undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against the applicants by the two reinstated officers , and on the question of the effect of public interest immunity : — |
| 13 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 14 | As your children get older you will probably want to encourage them towards a more unselfish view of the world by pointing out that their rights have to be balanced against the rights of others — and that includes their parents . |
| 15 | This targets them towards the most important part of the prey , where they can do most damage with their first contact . |
| 16 | But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary . |
| 17 | Our mountains have survived for millions of years , bearing witness to a history of violent , volcanic activity , glaciation and erosion , but ironically it 's the invention of the internal combustion engine and lightweight waterproof clothing that has put them under the most severe pressure yet . |
| 18 | Certain that it was the only true begetter of G&S , indifferent to new theatrical styles , D'Oyly Carte presented the same productions year after year , turning them into a rather dreary ritual . |
| 19 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 20 | Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system . |
| 21 | Lightly crush the shells of the eggs , then drop them into a very strong solution of water and food colouring ( approx 40ml/1½fl oz to 125ml/5fl oz water ) . |
| 22 | ( Or even better , try to fit them into a very short story . ) |
| 23 | She told him he had to cut the worm to pieces and fling them into a swiftly flowing river , ensuring they could not join together again , a method consistently used from then on by knights in their pursuit of dragons . |
| 24 | Where such e-mail messages only occasionally form part of a key record of action ( like the pseudo minutes mentioned here ) , then formal training as part of the records management programme and manual could be the answer — training so that the users recognise such messages and transfer them into a more appropriate work area . |
| 25 | These codes set limits to meaning — ‘ objective possibilities ’ — while at the same time they leave open a space within which the operation of other elements in the music , its context and reception , can pull them into a more specific place in the network of social meaning , in line with the work of the articulating principles involved . |
| 26 | The arbiter approach dismisses instrumentalist arguments that the state apparatus operates to support capitalism because the social backgrounds , values and networks of contacts for senior bureaucrats and political leaders tie them into a directly pro-business orientation . |
| 27 | It draws together all the elements we have so far discussed — multimedia databases , online and videoconferencing — combining them into the most complete form of online communication ever devised . |
| 28 | She took them into the almost deserted coffee lounge . |
| 29 | The better quality of Danby and the other famous names of the Bristol School take them into an even higher price range . |
| 30 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |