Example sentences of "[prep] them [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we known about them we might have paid more attention to the findings of the crime survey which suggested a quite extraordinary level of public support for what is now dismissed as the ‘ political rhetoric ’ of the social worker . |
| 2 | For example , if you have already made available literature dealing with questions such as holidays/pensions/conditions of work and the candidate chooses to ask about them it may well indicate that she/he is the sort of person who does not do their background work thoroughly . |
| 3 | It could be argued that they might help to identify him , but it was felt that they might relate to another crime and that if we started talking about them it might put whoever was responsible on his guard . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir , you know we do , though how you got to know about them I ca n't imagine . ’ |
| 5 | Mm , I 'm not sure about them you 'll have the headmaster turning up say I recognize everyone here |
| 6 | Had she not taken her weight off them they would simply have given way . |
| 7 | score off them they can |
| 8 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 9 | Three hundred people say hang round the bar and say , conservation board I 've had lots of letters , well so have I , we 'll get get through them they might cause trouble . |
| 10 | Through them we can come to know ourselves and others a little better . |
| 11 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 12 | Through them we can be reassured of the continuing popularity of Medau , in spite of today 's selection of heavily publicised good , bad and indifferent alternative movement methods . |
| 13 | Once I can make a hole through them it should n't be too difficult to get round into the outer cellar . |
| 14 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 15 | Through them he would know Christ . |
| 16 | That 's okay for them we 'll be able to fix something on . |
| 17 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 18 | Erm if it 's if you 're desperate for them we can rush it in |
| 19 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 20 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 21 | Common Terns at present nest on an island in the pit , and it is to be hoped that when disturbance is too great for them they will move to the Local Nature Reserve at Rye Harbour , which includes a gravel pit with suitable islands . |
| 22 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 23 | If they knew what was good for them they 'd be raising their panamas quizzically , glowering under the brims of their fedoras , flourishing their tweed caps and tilting their trilbies from morning till night . |
| 24 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 25 | If it were not for them he would not be free , he said . |
| 26 | If only for them I 'll do it . |
| 27 | If it means business for them I should think they should want to do more . |
| 28 | Yeah we should get sixty pound for them I should think . |
| 29 | For them it may be right to say that no conceivable circumstance in their lives would change the nature of their convictions . |
| 30 | For them it may be stated in the following terms : |