Example sentences of "them [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Inevitably , world record try scorer David Campese , who teased the Irish about their style before the game , tormented them during it , scoring number 51 to spark a massacre .
32 She was involved in some of the student protests against them during that period ; but at the end of the day she still felt that an English education was a necessary tool for survival for her children .
33 Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval .
34 Regarding the recent articles concerning the B-29 Superforts , or Washingtons , with the RAF I remembered flying them during my time in the post-war RAFVR .
35 ‘ John Bryan was the surrogate father to them during a most impressionable time .
36 In his now famous interview on Wednesday , Lamb pointed the finger at Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis , who shared 45 wickets between them during the five-match Test series .
37 Consequently most accidents , and there were nearly 500 of them during the 1970s , were not the result of employee thoughtlessness but emerged directly out of the contradictory demands made upon the workforce .
38 Before then , the toads have to lay in sufficient stores of energy to sustain them during their patient vigil underground .
39 Like mantises that eat their mates , or are eaten by them during intimate congress — even knowing that such a fate must occur — they were fraternally drawn to one another , obeying a bizarre tropism .
40 Waisale Serevi and Viliame Rauluni gun down New Zealand 's Paula Bale , a fellow Fijian , as he tries to mud-glide between them during Fiji 's emphatic 22–6 triumph in the final .
41 The English cathedrals also paid heavily for their association with Arminianism , as image-breakers inflicted considerable damage on them during the civil war .
42 subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron .
43 ‘ I have kept at least a score of them during my life here , till each decayed in turn .
44 It is better to control them during this ‘ in-ground ’ period , the best control being achieved by watering down a solution of a chemical , one of a group with the long name ‘ chlorinated hydrocarbons ’ , and used primarily in this case on lawns as a wormkiller .
45 Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness .
46 They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year .
47 A recent report from the South Western district based on in depth interviews with 12 preregistration house officers and the staff who had supervised them during their house jobs identified many of the problems with our present system .
48 The majority of our sample ( 59% ) describe themselves as fairly confident they know what their sexual partner wants from them during sex .
49 Do n't eat or drink too many and do n't snack on them during the day .
50 Unfortunately , although Parliament had done little to exercise its authority over them during the Tudor period , customs duties were not fully under the Crown 's control .
51 I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be .
52 Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening .
53 I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’
54 They 'd always be wanting nylons , he thought , he 'd seen what they 'd do for them during the war .
55 This made things difficult for them during the aggressively secular phase of the French Revolution , when Itxassou in particular fell foul of the regime .
56 The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial .
57 The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings .
58 Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods .
59 Well I do n't agree with that , I think that when your in love with someone you want to be with them all the time , you think about them during the day , you think about them at night , you just want to be with them and usually you like how they look , you like how they talk , they like , you like how they treat you and er to me that 's , its wonderful , just
60 ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties .
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