Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some manufacturers provide figures on the energy that new appliances use , but there is usually nothing to compare them with . |
| 2 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 3 | Someone reported them to the authorities . |
| 4 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 5 | As long as we can possibly get someone to replace them with . |
| 6 | Someone told them about us and we were sent a tea-chest full of filthy dirty , celluloid toys . |
| 7 | I wish I had someone to send them to . |
| 8 | ‘ Either the seeds blew in — or someone planted them as a joke , ’ said a senior officer . |
| 9 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 10 | Someone pushed them from behind , pushed their backs with the flat of his hand , and the doors closed . |
| 11 | Practical jokes were the order of the day during the making of The Jokers ; everyone played them on each other . |
| 12 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 13 | No-one told them about the drug 's side effects . |
| 14 | Nobody visited them in the evenings or dropped in for a chat during the day , except in the way of business — to sell wood to Uncle Philip or to arrange a booking for Francie and his fiddle . |
| 15 | The fact that they 've chosen to have somebody representing them in objection to the new settlement proposal I think is as strong an indication as you can get that the local people do n't actually support the council on this point . |
| 16 | Nobody want them at twenty pound ? |
| 17 | Well somebody built them at the boat builders in Orkney built some . |
| 18 | Many of them just lie there helplessly until somebody manhandles them over the side of the boat . |
| 19 | Clearly they have no power to do so , even if somebody asks them to , somebody from outside for instance , erm , and , and also when they do get a fire certificate , is there a display for it ? |
| 20 | But if someb if somebody put them in plain language to me , |
| 21 | His numerous critics will find plenty to amuse them in this volume . |
| 22 | Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites . |
| 23 | Although these patients may have used bronchodilators intermittently in the past for control of asthma , none required them during the week before endoscopy . |
| 24 | ‘ We shall not need to use that formation again , ’ Thorfinn said , and saw that the forest was quiet and the scouts had nothing to disturb them before turning to walk to his men . |
| 25 | Erm , another reason why I ca n't give you the whole story of course is because then there 'd be no reason to take this baby rather than this baby at the hospital , you know , so their histories are exactly identical , I E nil , erm , nothing individuates them on that account . |
| 26 | After a long time , the music started to play again and Cousin Jane and Mike walked back down the aisle and out of the church and everyone followed them into the sunny afternoon . |
| 27 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 28 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 29 | One met them at every turn asking plaintively , ‘ Has edyone god edy andihysterbine tableds ? ’ |
| 30 | ( c ) We moved " recent critical appraisal " after our analysis of powers of description and humour because these sections give our own critical appraisal ; now , by the time we outline other people 's opinions we have something to compare them with , and can therefore do something more interesting than just repeat them . |