Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 2 | YOUNG accountants at top City firms , recruited in the late 1980s boom when one in 10 graduates trained as an accountant , are being encouraged to take unpaid leave or extended holidays because the recession has left them with no work to do . |
| 3 | The dragonfish has expanded them into spectacular defensive weapons , each ray barbed with poison . |
| 4 | Occasionally long-term contracts have been used , but recent experience has shown them to be uncertain , given the volatility of currencies . |
| 5 | Their religious faith has sustained them in sickness , and in health has prompted concern for the ills of others . |
| 6 | Even that buttock-licker Pybus seems worried that Pahdra Singh has replaced them with his shifty brothers but , as I told Crowe , having a property developer , an estate agent and a supermarket magnate on the board can only be good for the club . |
| 7 | Hosea has to recall them to Yahweh , their first love , when they have gone and committed adultery , like Hosea 's own wife , with some other ‘ Lord ’ on whom they have lavished their worship and devotion . |
| 8 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 9 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 10 | Donna had called them from Jackie Quinn 's house , telling Jackie there was nothing to worry about . |
| 11 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 12 | The terrible Human-hungry creature that Fael-Inis had warned them against … |
| 13 | When Pat had told them of his new orders he said to his wife , ‘ You 'll have your lad home again , Julia , however it goes with , these letters he 's had . |
| 14 | King Edward had used them in Wales as war dogs but later had them killed because , in their blood lust , they had failed to distinguish between friend and foe . |
| 15 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 16 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 17 | Within weeks Stagecoach had turned them into $ 5.1 million and still had half the operation left . |
| 18 | It was reported that , when ZANU-PF held primary elections in mid-February to select its candidates , several senior party officials , including Joyce Mujuru ( Minister of Community Development and Co-operatives ) , had been defeated , but that Mugabe had reinstated them after nullifying the results . |
| 19 | I do n't think your words have reassured them at all . |
| 20 | mummy 's got them in her pocket |
| 21 | And I bought a couple but the kids have taken them to school . |
| 22 | Only Tranmere have beaten them in the league this year . |
| 23 | ENGLAND 'S defeat in the first Cornhill Test has left them with even more problems than those produced by last winter 's disastrous tour of India . |
| 24 | There are cases where owners genuinely believe that their pet cat has followed them by some mystical means to a new home several thousand miles away from the original one . |
| 25 | One expert has described them as ‘ the most primate-like non-primate ’ . |
| 26 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |
| 27 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 28 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 29 | A council has banned them from putting metal shutters on their windows , saying it would spoil the look of the town centre . |
| 30 | The Judge has sentenced them to be detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure for ’ very very many years ’ . |