Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of SQL Access Group documentation has caused customer and database vendors a significant amount of frustration and in a number of cases has forced them to turn to alternatives , such as IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Data Architecture . |
| 2 | In addition , the precipitous decline in the real price of many products has made them accessible to many more people in the developing world . |
| 3 | Whereas industrial demand fell below expectations , demand in the tourism and leisure sectors has exceeded them . |
| 4 | The heartache and suffering over the centuries has made them tough and strong and it 's been a slow evolution . |
| 5 | As a gift to the family , Wimpey Homes has given them some furniture to help make their new house feel more like home . |
| 6 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 7 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 8 | Until now Turkish protection of the Crimean Tatars had enabled them to launch repeated slave raids on Russian territory , prevented settled cultivation of wide areas of the Ukraine , and blocked Russian access to the Black Sea . |
| 9 | New divorce legislation reported on Dec. 9 was said to grant unprecedented rights to women , allowing divorcees to seek compensation through the courts for housework which husbands had ordered them to do during the marriage . |
| 10 | The irony of it , considering the hundreds of fellow-Irishmen who attended Armistice Day ceremonies in the smaller towns throughout the country only because the Black and Tans had forced them to shut their businesses and turn out . |
| 11 | He knew that , for the first time , his words had found them . |
| 12 | He could see how his words had changed them . |
| 13 | as if her words had conjured them up , all three burst into the kitchen . |
| 14 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 15 | Glasgow restaurateurs , Kee Lee and Yam Fat Tsim said triad gangs had forced them to take part in the million pound world-wide credit conspiracy . |
| 16 | I do n't think your words have reassured them at all . |
| 17 | The truth is … that the institutions of parliamentary government sprang from the least rationalistic period of our politics , from the Middle Ages , and ( despite the cloud of false theory with which recent centuries have enveloped them ) were connected , not with the promotion of a rationalist order of society , but ( in conjunction with the common law ) with the limitation of the exercise of political power and the opposition to tyranny in whatever form it appeared . |
| 18 | The new frontiers opened up by the development of the sciences through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have taken them far beyond the model of the machine and revealed a far greater degree of randomness and unpredictability in the fundamental structure of the universe . |
| 19 | In view of that enormous number of empty dwellings , will the Minister give an assurance that none of the 1,600 wives — and their children — whose husbands have left them will be evicted ? |
| 20 | And I bought a couple but the kids have taken them to school . |
| 21 | MEMBERS of Parliament are being canvassed by the New Statesman , the weekly left-wing magazine , to find which books have influenced them . |
| 22 | Employers who have attended students ' debriefing sessions have found them most illuminating . |
| 23 | The increased competitive pressure experienced by many US and UK companies as a result of the Japanese emphasis on reliability and the inclusion of ‘ extras ’ in basic models has made them much more aware of the need to pay attention to quality . |
| 24 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |
| 25 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 26 | But , some had become sociable and talkative , probably because their parents had helped them . |
| 27 | Miss Martindale had had a school , but her rigid ideas and stern manner had frightened the children , and their parents had taken them away . |
| 28 | This curious fusion of experiences had made them elated and slightly feverish . |
| 29 | The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed . |
| 30 | The government of Australia on Sept. 23 expressed disappointment that the USA was continuing nuclear tests while other " forward-looking " countries had suspended them . |