Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] them the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 2 | If taken to extremes , such policies carried within them the potential to precipitate a catastrophic decline into hyperinflation . |
| 3 | At a very early age the Spencer children had impressed upon them the value of good manners , honesty and accepting people for what they are , not for their position in life . |
| 4 | The children must have impressed upon them the need for personal cooperation within the classroom as essential to the variety of learning situations with which they will be faced . |
| 5 | After , after er er I 've done with them the travel head lad takes over , he does all the ol the tra the race course , you know . |
| 6 | They have seen Pop Will Eat Itself close up and seen in them the terrible cost of debauchery . |
| 7 | Okay you 've talked to them the phone right and you 're gon na go and sign them up . |
| 8 | André Gide 's Les Fauxmonnayeurs ( 1926 ) , a novel characterized by self-reflexivity and self-consciousness , in which the device of mise en abyme ( or internal duplication ) is especially conspicuous , has perhaps not received from them the kind of attention that could be expected . |
| 9 | In the seminary library he came across the works of the medieval Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus [ q.v. ] , and almost instantly recognized in them the philosophical backing for his own instinctive perception of the uniqueness of each being and created thing . |
| 10 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 11 | In most cases these families are poor , but they have brought with them the petit-bourgeois values of financially better-off days , and this has led to an apparently unquenchable materialism . |
| 12 | The sharpest contrast is with migrants who have brought with them the expectation that sons will bring their wives into the homes of their parents , where in some sense the wives will be under the authority of their mothers-in-law . |
| 13 | If you made it and laid down them the the man that was doing it , he 'd only to lift that and give it a twine and on to the next . |
| 14 | My senior staff have already addressed a meeting of Citizens Advice representatives in Edinburgh and explained to them the Council Tax legislation . |
| 15 | The geometrical plan of these structures , and the accuracy of their laying-out , caused astonishment upon their discovery , but otherwise the more that has emerged about them the more difficult in some ways they have become to understand . |
| 16 | I have now received the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors and I have accordingly despatched to them the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and also my local search with East Herts District Council . |
| 17 | You know I did , I was entranced by them the other day . |
| 18 | Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening ! |
| 19 | Erbani , Lorieux and Carminati in the pack are no strangers to the international arena with 75 caps between them , but Fouroux and his assistant coach Daniel Dubroca hope that the French will show willingness and enthusiasm for battle and put behind them the inept and inexplicable performance witnessed at Strasbourg . |
| 20 | Beforehand he met a number of local farmers and discussed with them the problems that CAP , GATT and subsidies pose for agriculture in this country . |
| 21 | Menelik accepted this and signed with them the Treaty of Uccialli . |
| 22 | To cancel unc to its lowest terms : Notice we neatly cross out the 18 and 27 and put above them the number of times 9 goes in to each . |
| 23 | If you can once get into Children a Love of Credit , and an Apprehension of Shame and Disgrace , you have put into them the true principle … |
| 24 | When the dawn came , anxious viewers on the shore could see that the waves had taken with them the Eddystone lighthouse , its eccentric architect and five other unfortunate souls . |
| 25 | We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask . |
| 26 | They were still prisoners of the attraction which , under the guise of antipathy , had arced between them the moment Nathan had entered the Customs office . |
| 27 | And had he not , with the utmost delicacy , nurtured in them the impression that they and not he were in control of events ? |
| 28 | By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education . |
| 29 | He , in retaliation , has launched against them the most concentrated onslaughts that he has been able to devise . |
| 30 | The children are in role as the townspeople of Nazareth ; out of role the teacher has established with them the nature of their work , their commitment to their land , families and places of work . |