Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
2 | Perhaps one day an Ayrshire school or other organisation will pursue the theme and bring the peoples of the old and new worlds closer to each other by reminding them of their common bonds . |
3 | The ever-cautious Margaret Beckett is no longer on the left by any definition but her own , but she knows that she can not win the votes of a majority of MPs , let alone constituency members , without reminding them of her leftwing roots . |
4 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
5 | It is said that Adolf Sax tried to persuade Wagner to include them in his orchestral apparatus but Wagner perceived that they would not blend well with either woodwind or brass ( still less , strings ) and never used them . |
6 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
7 | Instead of seeing money — or love , time , success or joy — as in short supply , we will come to see them as our natural birthright , letting them flow through our lives with great ease . |
8 | This is not , in fact , the best time of year to see them in their full glory , but you will appreciate , sir , that with the arrival of spring , we will see a change — a very special sort of change — in these surroundings . ’ |
9 | ‘ I have loved elephants since I was a child and it will be fantastic to see them in their natural environment . ’ |
10 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
11 | The Thames was flowing full and furious , the water greedily lapping their feet as if it would like to catch them and drag them under its swollen black surface . |
12 | It has this name because it enables you to alter the order of slides — you just drag them to their required positions . |
13 | Now the railways levelled them with their black cousins on the other side of the 49th parallel . |
14 | Large body-size would , in fact , isolate them from their thermal environment because they would exchange heat at lower rates . |
15 | Deficiencies are there but you can counteract them to your personal advantage . |
16 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
17 | I would like to thank them for their continuing forbearance and understanding , and for their hard work throughout the year . |
18 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |
19 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
20 | Most of them are performed by women , and most women continue to perform them into their old age , whether or not they have formerly had paid employment . |
21 | The hostility which farmers have recently provoked from many environmentalists also helps to confirm them in their characteristic persecution complex , associated with being a small , closely knit minority in an urban industrial society . |
22 | God seems to get a real kick out of choosing people who think that they are useless , or who others think are useless , and using them for something important and useful . |
23 | Using them for their filthy business . |
24 | On the other hand , the independence of the Tariff Reform League was a positive advantage : after January 1913 the party supported the tariff policy but was not including them in its immediate programme , so that Central Office could continue to distribute tariff propaganda from the TRL without compromising party policy . |
25 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
26 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
27 | Poets like Pushkin : Formalist literary science will use these legendary biographies as literary facts where relevant , but would never regard them as anything other than the by-products of a certain literary practice . |
28 | Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new . |
29 | They now try to seek out alliances with other companies that want their materials recycled and companies willing to buy recyclables and make them into something useful . |
30 | Before then , the toads have to lay in sufficient stores of energy to sustain them during their patient vigil underground . |