Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may regard them as curious examples of another civilization or occasionally view with incredulity the ways of city people and industrial workers , but he will only regard them with envy when television reinforces the evaluations already implanted personally by friends and kin with whom he identifies . |
| 2 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 3 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 4 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 5 | But anything other than aquiescence with the regent could only tie them into political and ideological knots of Gordian proportions . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll only need them for your school work , ’ her mother reassured her , also trying to talk herself out of her own dismay . |
| 7 | This section will focus on solicitors ' charges but will only consider them in outline . |
| 8 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive . |
| 11 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 12 | Most reptiles , having buried or concealed their eggs in some way , abandon them , but a few stay beside them and will valiantly defend them against robbers . |
| 13 | Possibly he 'd reached the stage of being one who would merely use them for his own ends — especially his sex life . |
| 14 | " I 'd better see them on their way . |
| 15 | I do not remember if the Babies descended , were re-named , and started their laborious struggle to the light over again ; I can only trace them in their perpetual slow motion upward . |
| 16 | Of course we do n't carry sub-aqua gear to check out these features before fishing : we can only discover them through practice . |
| 17 | The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes . |
| 18 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
| 19 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
| 20 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
| 21 | We can only approach them on a narrow front , because of this river valley 's construction . |
| 22 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 23 | What a waste of time , cos he 'll only sell them for things he |
| 24 | You know , there 're people in Congress want all kinds of different things and they ca n't all have them at once , but that does n't stop them all wanting them . |
| 25 | They should all have them from a similar area because most of the time they say oh well they live so far away |
| 26 | And then : oh , please , if there have to be more lies , at least let me only tell them to other people , not to myself any more . |
| 27 | This situation is doubtless taken for granted by today 's generation , yet , less than twenty-five years ago , leading statisticians were expressing concern lest interposition of the machine would so distance them from the data under consideration that the quality of analysis would suffer . |
| 28 | ( 110 , p.225 n.2 ) Possibly such claims were put forward even earlier , although one can only infer them from the appearance of closed crowns on the English coinage in the reign of Henry VII . |
| 29 | The verderers ' familiarity with the district from earlier years could only serve them in a general way , for the woodland paths varied from season to season . |
| 30 | Dad would only blame them for what she was doing . |