Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that most offices put them in the open near the coffee machine or the Ladies loo and anybody can see what 's coming over . |
| 2 | Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation . |
| 3 | So , naturally , many insect-eating animals pursue them in the air . |
| 4 | Once you 've found the words ring them with a pen , cut out the wordsquare or photocopy it if you do n't want to damage your magazine , and send it to us here at : Make sure you also enclose your address and boot size . |
| 5 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , individual protesters were being held down while Mosley 's guards beat them over the head and about the face . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom , their mistrust of the new powers of industry and their blank incomprehension when faced with the idea that their estates could be run more profitably on other than feudal lines set them on a course that was to have a profound impact on German history . |
| 10 | This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory . |
| 11 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 12 | Thus many companies see them as a threat to their holding on to their good people , and instilling corporate loyalty into new appointees . |
| 13 | The feathery and delicate fronds of the ferns make them among the most beautiful of the foliage plants , and they attract a fanatical group of devotees dedicated to growing exotic species in inhospitable cities . |
| 14 | But disabled people who use them say the workshops provide them with a sense of dignity as well as permanent paid work . |
| 15 | Will the local bookshops take them on a sale-or-return basis ? |
| 16 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
| 17 | It is a production bogged down by a Brussels-like bureaucracy , from the union dominated actions of the orchestra ( whose buzzing watch-alarms alert them to a coffee break mid- aria ) to the backstabbing officials protecting their patch with petty politics . |
| 18 | The policemen controlling the pedestrians beckon them across the road . |
| 19 | Nurses volunteer their services when they wish to work and managers engage them at the times required . |
| 20 | Many firms do them on an exchange basis . |
| 21 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 22 | Webs of bilateral deals protect them from the full brunt of competition . |
| 23 | Less self-satisfied social reformers , while not denying improvement — in the case of the elite of workers whose relative scarcity of qualifications put them into a fairly continuous sellers ' market , the substantial improvement — gave a less rose-tinted picture : |
| 24 | If that is the case , then the only feasible way of including such shares is if the holders assent them to the scheme by separate undertakings . |
| 25 | The findings of the male researchers , she claims , are dogged by what she calls the problem of women ‘ whose sexuality remains more diffuse , whose perception of self is so much more tenaciously embedded in relationships with others and whose moral dilemmas hold them in a mode of judgment that is insistently contextual ’ . |
| 26 | The arbiter approach dismisses instrumentalist arguments that the state apparatus operates to support capitalism because the social backgrounds , values and networks of contacts for senior bureaucrats and political leaders tie them into a directly pro-business orientation . |
| 27 | More cubs will be reared by cheetahs whose genes equip them with the optimum compromise between running speed , milk production and all the other calls on their budget . |
| 28 | Informal discussions with Afro-Caribbean pupils indicated that the pupils felt that certain teachers disrespect them on the basis of their ethnicity and that for these pupils the pupil-teacher relationship was based on conflict , with the pupils attempting to play the teachers at their own ‘ game ’ in order to survive . |
| 29 | The girls join them for a final splash in the pool . |
| 30 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |