Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] them [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once or twice did he ever become aroused enough for them to make love . |
| 2 | Breakfast was bound to arrive early enough for them to have time to talk afterwards . |
| 3 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 4 | " recommend earnestly to them to purchase Timber , that may answer the purpose , from the wreck of the Brig stranded on Duich Bay , if she is to be broken up … " |
| 5 | We 're just playing with twelve pennies and she 's making patterns out of them to make multiplication tables |
| 6 | Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back . |
| 7 | To depart substantially from them invites question unless it can be demonstrated that such departure conforms to accepted practice by rational analysis . |
| 8 | After Black Monday , large firms like Shearson have built up their corporate finance departments and relied increasingly on them to generate earnings . |
| 9 | While lords were concerned about returns from their estates , their normal practice was to exploit traditional resources rather than to seek more profitable areas for investment , even at a time when population decline made it hard for them to find tenants and had reduced rent levels and the income from them . |
| 10 | ‘ Neither publisher had film rights in their titles ; both had television rights ; Heinemann had merchandising rights , which are important in children 's titles , whereas Hutchinson did n't ; and it was a moot point whether either of them had video or audio cassette rights , since the original book was published in 1979 , and the form of the publishing agreement had not been changed to take account of the new technology . ’ |
| 11 | It was when , on their leader 's orders , they went to search the huts and hovels and woods beside and ahead of them to find signs of retreat or of ambush that the news they brought back seemed to unsettle their leader and the noblemen from Northumbria and from Fife whom he conferred with . |
| 12 | Nor was the itch yet in them to engrave finger bones — though that would come with the passage of time . |