Example sentences of "[prep] them the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 2 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 3 | Not for them the Pimms and champagne . |
| 4 | In the reports of social workers , psychiatrists or teachers , such global terms can hardly be avoided ; for them the labels and importance attached by research workers to facets of parental behaviour are likely to be of considerable use . |
| 5 | And as for the light coming from the rear , the same sort of thing happened — only the other way round : for them the humps and dips were spread out . ’ |
| 6 | He opened his lips , struggling to put off the pride and bitterness that held him mute ; but the slight rustle of the tapestry at the door spoke first , and eloquently , and when he looked up David was gone , leaving still silent on the air between them the name that was not to be spoken . |
| 7 | Between them the scientists and philosophers set out to explain a universe , which , after the muddle of the Dark or Middle Ages , seemed to be flooded with clear light . |
| 8 | Between them the Italian and German aircraft made possible an air-ferry which during late July and early August bore the greater part of the Army of Africa across the Straits of Gibraltar to Seville . |
| 9 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
| 10 | Did any of them the lads that you the men that you went away with . |
| 11 | In July 1683 the University of Oxford issued a judgment condemning certain doctrines thought to be " destructive to the kingly government " , amongst them the views that " civil authority is derived originally from the people " , that resistance to tyrants was legitimate , and that England was a mixed monarchy , with sovereignty vested in the King , Lords and Commons . |
| 12 | Many men played a part in building this system : leading ministers such as the confidence-rebuilding Walpole and the quietly reforming Henry Pelham , and beneath them the officials and clerks . |
| 13 | Then fragments of memory floated slowly to the surface like debris from a sunken ship , and along with them the aches and twinges of a busy night . |
| 14 | With a sigh she knew that in the morning when the people returned they would bring with them the rivalries and ill-feeling that had spoiled everything . |
| 15 | And then er working with them the tractor and binder did the cutting and that and we did the cutting and the leading . |
| 16 | While this exchange was going on , Rodrigo had allowed certain of his men to desert to the other side , taking with them the story that El Cid was about to escape by night through one of the passes . |
| 17 | Now the staff at St Tigglywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Buckinghamshire are preparing to come to the rescue , taking with them the experience and expertise to deal with sick creatures of the sea . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 21 | In them the racks and shelves were filled with clothes made in the factory here . |
| 22 | And had he not , with the utmost delicacy , nurtured in them the impression that they and not he were in control of events ? |
| 23 | With many relationships the case for self-creation is even stronger , since in them the fact that one chose to have a relationship of a certain kind and chose one 's partner is part of what makes the relationship valuable . |
| 24 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 25 | This is merely routine arrogance , but it obscures from them the fact that they could impress everyone a lot more if they could do a better job — and with a bit of help they could . |
| 26 | Beneath her window she could see the white humps of the pot in her backyard — pots that in summer she filled with geraniums and petunias in an effort to bring some colour to the uniform greyness , beyond them the wall that bordered the yard was also white-crusted . |
| 27 | He does his readers the service of conveying to them the life and living of a family they might never encounter , or have had occasion to consider . |
| 28 | I have passed on to them the teaching and worship tapes sent on to e here and they have asked me to thank you sincerely and they ask you to continue to pray for them . |
| 29 | When the Secretary of State sees the Republican representatives again , will he put to them the revulsion that was felt by the Unionist community and by a large section of the Roman Catholic community in Northern Ireland when Mr. Haughey attempted to foist into the Anglo-Irish Conference a new Minister for Defence ? |
| 30 | We hope the leaflet we are sending out to our motor policyholders will bring home to them the fact that most cars can be converted both simply and cheaply . ’ |