Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers .
32 Elsewhere , individual protesters were being held down while Mosley 's guards beat them over the head and about the face .
33 A treaty was agreed in 1490 , although a concession was made to the Venetians to exempt them from the Staple .
34 Sitting in the lotus position they jumped into the air using their thighs to propel them off the ground .
35 They should ask two academic referees to recommend them to the Principal without waiting for any request from her .
36 Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market .
37 The factory survey found that one quarter of Japan 's biggest factories used robots and that a second quarter had plans to install them by the end of 1982 .
38 Other time bombs await them in the form of the dispute over the GATT farm trade deal , French involvement in Bosnia , proposed constitutional reforms and , not least , how to handle the approaching period of ‘ cohabitation ’ with an ageing , isolated and deeply unpopular , but nevertheless still extraordinarily wily , Socialist president .
39 People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism .
40 In the old days manufacturers produced the goods and salesmen sold them with the help of advertising .
41 All the tunes mentioned so far were , so to speak , rescued from the hands of ‘ folk ’ song collectors and those of ‘ refined ’ parlour performers ; Corvan 's texts articulate them to the needs of his class , at a particular moment in its history .
42 We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century .
43 The majority of Athenian citizens were working men who needed the meagre payment that was eventually made for carrying out public duties to compensate them for the loss of daily earnings .
44 I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris .
45 His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany .
46 Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany .
47 It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis .
48 The Tree Spirits were clinging to the black iron pipes that ran along the sides of the floor , using them as levers and pulleys to help them across the floor .
49 As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment …
50 The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect .
51 ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said .
52 The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes .
53 Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself .
54 At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels .
55 He had been appalled , as had the rest of the court , at the emaciation of the four ambassadors sent them by the city , but he had not been surprised .
56 Push dry straw under the ripening fruits to lift them off the soil and deter slugs .
57 You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap .
58 If they were made any thicker , they would grip the batteries too tightly to allow the springs to push them against the positive contact .
59 Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US .
60 The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women .
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