Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] them the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The geometrical plan of these structures , and the accuracy of their laying-out , caused astonishment upon their discovery , but otherwise the more that has emerged about them the more difficult in some ways they have become to understand . |
| 2 | The children are in role as the townspeople of Nazareth ; out of role the teacher has established with them the nature of their work , their commitment to their land , families and places of work . |
| 3 | He , in retaliation , has launched against them the most concentrated onslaughts that he has been able to devise . |
| 4 | The children must have impressed upon them the need for personal cooperation within the classroom as essential to the variety of learning situations with which they will be faced . |
| 5 | At a very early age the Spencer children had impressed upon them the value of good manners , honesty and accepting people for what they are , not for their position in life . |
| 6 | After , after er er I 've done with them the travel head lad takes over , he does all the ol the tra the race course , you know . |
| 7 | Okay you 've talked to them the phone right and you 're gon na go and sign them up . |
| 8 | Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening ! |
| 9 | When the dawn came , anxious viewers on the shore could see that the waves had taken with them the Eddystone lighthouse , its eccentric architect and five other unfortunate souls . |
| 10 | They were still prisoners of the attraction which , under the guise of antipathy , had arced between them the moment Nathan had entered the Customs office . |
| 11 | By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education . |
| 12 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 13 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 14 | In most cases these families are poor , but they have brought with them the petit-bourgeois values of financially better-off days , and this has led to an apparently unquenchable materialism . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask . |
| 17 | If you can once get into Children a Love of Credit , and an Apprehension of Shame and Disgrace , you have put into them the true principle … |
| 18 | The tRNA molecules with the anticodon CCG also have attached to them the amino acid glycine . |