Example sentences of "[prep] them [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 2 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 3 | It is much cheaper to spend a little longer thinking about them beforehand and getting them right the first time rather than the second , third or fourth time around . |
| 4 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 5 | The dull red glow was all about them now and the baleful light fell across the Robemaker 's cloaked figure so that , although his face remained hidden , Nuadu caught the glitter of his eyes , red and inverted and , despite the belching heat , he felt ice close about his heart . |
| 6 | I heard about them long before I came to live here . |
| 7 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 8 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
| 9 | You come quick off them though if you 're not wondering if you 're not watching what 's happening you come off sh |
| 10 | In particular , the ERCs fail in some cases to rehabilitate the men and women who pass through them largely because it is not their physical disablement but their attitude that is handicapping them in returning to normal working life , and the ERCs are not really equipped to change these attitudes . |
| 11 | There has never been any difficulty finding the facts in Northern Ireland — the news media comb through them relentlessly and university libraries are crammed full of academic literature on the troubles . |
| 12 | But they could lie safely among them for as long as they liked , and they could move through them easily and unseen . |
| 13 | Kopyion , appearing not to notice him , continued collecting messages , reading through them quickly and then shredding them . |
| 14 | Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent . |
| 15 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 16 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 17 | I should n't care to work for them even if they asked me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It will be a lovely surprise for them both when they come in , Rita 's chance at last . |
| 19 | It 'll be a surprise for them both when they get home … |
| 20 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 21 | Such nurses need to benefit from an individual appraisal and assessment of their experience and skills so that re-entry becomes a natural progression for them rather than a hurdle to be jumped . |
| 22 | I have said before from the Dispatch Box that the attitude of other parties in the House to that Act is a matter for them rather than for me . |
| 23 | It was a continuous process , and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them rather than for the other department next door . |
| 24 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 25 | Life 's better for them here when they 're lucky enough to get in . |
| 26 | Take our kids away from us because you reckon you know what 's good for them better than what we do ? |
| 27 | Well I should say yes they would , I should say there was trouble for them obviously when it was reported . |
| 28 | You 'd better settle for them quickly while they 're still at this low price . " |
| 29 | The theory of politics argues , on the supply side , that political parties , in bidding for support , end up by promising more than they can deliver and that , on the demand side , this leads to inflated expectations since the electorate have incentives to vote for increased services because they do not pay for them directly and because there may be little correlation between tax payments and government benefits . |
| 30 | Second , the electorate will have every incentive to vote for more government services because they do not pay for them directly and individual tax payments may bear little ( if any ) relationship to the benefits which they may derive from such services . |