Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | A salesman at one licensed dealer used to read his clients ' horoscopes for them . |
| 2 | Nearly three months ' worth of them — nothing before that — then , as soon as exams began : every single night I had them , and every single morning I wrote them down . |
| 3 | He does n't do the engineers ' jobs for them , nor tell the personnel professionals how to he more professional . |
| 4 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 5 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 6 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 7 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 8 | The bargaining power of enterprises is enhanced by their strategic role within their own sectors and governments ' dependence on them for implementation of policy . |
| 9 | He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party . |
| 10 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 11 | Secretaries and have outlasted most , with 38 years ' service between them . |
| 12 | We also have to recognise that certain rhetorical strategies might be adopted for tactical reasons , especially the ploy of using one 's opponents ' arguments against them in order to discredit their position . |
| 13 | One of the leading practitioner 's texts on company law , Gore-Browne , argues that while the directors are now required to take employee interests into account , they are never permitted to subordinate the shareholders ' interests to them . |
| 14 | They were treated like children , not young adults and the 11 p.m. rule imposed on the Beida students without consultation was symptomatic of the authorities ' attitude towards them . |
| 15 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 16 | Similarly , professional groups possessing key skills can often rely on employers ' dependence upon them . |
| 17 | This is because the nature of the mechanical deficiencies changed with time , and so did our predecessors ' perceptions of them . |
| 18 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 19 | The illusion soon faded , and an administration of dull Bavarians had to be imported to sort out the Greeks ' affairs for them . |
| 20 | Those such as Boromir are saved by their friends ' love for them . |
| 21 | Left to itself , the momentum of the Community legal system will do the Federalists ' task for them , with or without Maastricht . |
| 22 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 23 | those who have accepted the teachers ' view of them that they are thick and who see no point in pursuing any further academic work because of their acknowledged inability , and |
| 24 | The Discussion Paper illustrated ‘ split accounting ’ and ‘ the imputed interest method ’ and sought respondents ' views on them , although it did not propose that these methods be required . |
| 25 | There were four of them ; they had shared the dead youths ' clothing between them . |
| 26 | Their families will have remarked on the babies ' likeness to them . |
| 27 | Social and practical situations are interactive and pupils ' competence in them may be quite different from their abilities with pen and paper alone . |
| 28 | The beech trees of Yarm 's Beech Tree Court are to stay , says Stockton Borough Council , despite residents ' calls for them to be given the chop . |
| 29 | This group 's unsuccessful conduct of the war incurred them much unpopularity , and discontent at their domination of the king , together with rumours of corruption , self-seeking and extortion , underlay the commons ' attack upon them in the Good Parliament of 1376 . |
| 30 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |