Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] them [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to sell my share in Moffat Engineering , which lost me my chance to drive for them that year … ’ |
| 2 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 3 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 4 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 5 | There was nothing left of it but these things , as with cries of animal passion they allowed the storm that had brewed around them all summer to reach its thunderous climax . |
| 6 | Wayne was enchanted to see Hermia and Perdita , and gave the appearance of having been searching for them all day . |
| 7 | ( People drive cars despite knowing that thousands die in them each year . ) |
| 8 | Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 9 | erm Every year it does n't normally get in the press but we have to do a deal with all the federations abroad , the Swedes , the Danes , everybody and erm the Danes could n't erm accept what we put to them this year . |
| 10 | But I did not have time to talk to them all day ; I had my work to do . |
| 11 | Making hats for a living and looking at them all day long has mellowed her taste somewhat . |
| 12 | paying for them all year long ? |
| 13 | Ehm , Bank Holiday August , well were going with them that weekend cos like . |
| 14 | If you are able to meet my clients ' price expectations by revising your offer , I would then propose that you meet with them this month to exchange their and your thoughts for the future . |
| 15 | That 's a shame because I do n't normally use overheads and I 've got into them this year and er my stats group in particular , who get the same sort of treatment as you do , have actually said th |
| 16 | now we are down that far , so I did everything so I 've nothing to do for them this morning , just sit there |
| 17 | Williams added : ‘ At this moment in time it is a relegation match but it is n't one we particularly fear — I 've played against them this season and I know they 're not the Forest of old . |
| 18 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 19 | Neither man liked the other , but they had strewn eggs in their own pathways towards each other and they walked on them all afternoon . |
| 20 | One of the Trust 's most precious assets is the experience , skill and commitment of its staff ; this has its reward in the standards of upkeep and presentation of the properties , and in the enjoyment which the members and wider public , in their tens of millions , gain from them each year . |
| 21 | The 300,000 annual visitors to Nepal have also brought with them another problem — litter . |
| 22 | Reference was made in the course of the argument to a number of Commonwealth and American decisions , but I have not found in them any reasoning persuasive of a view contrary to that which I have formed in the light of the English and Scottish authorities . |
| 23 | He chatted to them all evening , then went home and fell asleep . |
| 24 | THOSE OF you who remember Sly & Robbie 's so-called golden period , when students would approach reggae DJs and ask for ‘ something by Sly & Robbie ’ when the DJ had already been playing records driven by them all night , had better get used to some changes . |
| 25 | The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond . |
| 26 | Have your eyelashes dyed at a local beauty salon and then you can simply forget about them all summer . |
| 27 | she said in Germany , I said no I said I can walk into them any moment |
| 28 | These would be pushed away by the radiation from the Sun , taking with them any payload attached to them . |
| 29 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 30 | You saw to them this morning . |