Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 2 | My sister goes for them |
| 3 | As to claims that religious education was inadequate , he pledged the Movement ‘ to investigate any individual case referred to them ’ and promised ‘ to leave no stone unturned to make the most satisfactory arrangements possible , . |
| 4 | Four trees were constructed from the same word lists , and candidate strings from a test sentence checked against them . |
| 5 | The housewife refers to them as external obligations to which she feels a deep need to conform . |
| 6 | However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 7 | MacDonaid in a speech at Elgin in December voiced his ‘ suspicion that between now and January … there was going to be a serious attempt to wangle the Constitution so that the democracy of this country might not have fair play given to them ’ . |
| 8 | A detailed analysis of such techniques is beyond the scope of this book , and so the coverage given to them will be generally limited to their marketing applications . |
| 9 | The foreign students spent a lot of time having the meaning of that slogan explained to them . |
| 10 | ‘ The position , therefore , was that the wife , by process of law , namely marriage , had given consent to the husband to exercise the marital right during such time as the ordinary relations created by the marriage contract subsisted between them , but by a further process of law , namely , the justices ’ order , her consent to marital intercourse was revoked . |
| 11 | The vast curling crest of the hurricane reared over them , and its face stretched from horizon to horizon . |
| 12 | Legends must suffer for all the gifts and luck and privilege given to them . |
| 13 | They glared at one another , attraction and antagonism crackling between them like electricity . |
| 14 | THE great British public turns to the sweet things in life when the tide turns against them . |
| 15 | Endowment assigned to them , so they would see it , they would know it , they would check it and they 'd be in that position . |
| 16 | And he wears these horrible Y-fronts , with his Batman T-shirt tucked into them ! |
| 17 | There was no milk to go with them , but we had water to drink — a luxury boat , water comes out of taps ! — and some Rich Tea biscuits from a tin . |
| 18 | The brushwood groynes 200 yards off-shore hold the sediment as the tide retreats through them and NRA officials hope it will lead to the development of new saltmarsh to reduce the impact of waves hitting the sea wall . |
| 19 | The padre goes with them as they leap out into a very boggy field . |
| 20 | In modern terms , he evaluated who was to be evangelised and was willing to take responsibility to go to them in the work of evangelism . |
| 21 | Trent knew that Mariana was waiting for the hurricane to fall on them . |
| 22 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 23 | Discount houses ' holdings of bills are financed by money lent to them ‘ at call ’ by the rest of the monetary sector . |
| 24 | In conditions of liquidity shortage they will call back these loans , requiring the discount houses to repay the money lent to them . |
| 25 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 26 | And when someone indicates his willingness to work for them they naturally suspect he is a plant . |
| 27 | Only the sightscreen manufacturers will do badly out of this idea , and I have no room in my heart to worry about them . |
| 28 | ‘ You know perfectly well that it is not me whom you love , but Mrs Greville , and the two children who are your responsibility , and , knowing that your heart lies with them , and not with me , I can not marry you . ’ |
| 29 | In the first place , the limits of the imagination are shifting sands , and it is not obvious that anything which at present lies outside them is forever beyond our grasp . |
| 30 | Married women whose husbands provided the support expected of them , however , had a low risk of depression following life events . |