Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in 1811 , he cruelly disposed of the remaining senior mamluks , massacring them after entertaining them to a feast in the citadel . |
| 2 | Thank you for providing them in 1990 . |
| 3 | Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for . |
| 4 | However , if the bailor was not the owner but had , for example , stolen them before leaving them for repair or treatment , etc. then the true owner will still have good title ( i.e. unless one of the other exceptions to the nemo dat principle applies ) . |
| 5 | He found them before putting them through the saw ? |
| 6 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 7 | They will dig away the earth from under the bodies of small creatures , such as shrew-mice and fallen fledglings , and then lay their eggs on them before covering them with soil . |
| 8 | England has an excellent crop of young players , but my role as Captain and Selector precludes me from naming them in these pages . |
| 9 | And Whitbread 's taken them over bunging them in everywhere are n't they ? |
| 10 | He also failed to mobilize a heavy turnout amongst black voters , many of whom criticised him for ignoring them in his efforts to woo the white rural electorate . |
| 11 | She 'd taxed him with trading them for snuff , which was his passion , and he 'd not denied it . |
| 12 | Then they leave them there , in among her own kittens , and when she returns the chances are that she will calmly lie down and let all the kittens feed from her without examining them in detail . |
| 13 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 14 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 15 | The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria ( CITUB ) and the Podkrepa ( " Support " ) Labour Confederation walked out of talks with the government on April 14 , accusing it of presenting them with a fait accompli over price liberalization . |
| 16 | Word meanings are especially liable to change because people learn them by hearing them in context rather than by looking up the ‘ standard ’ definition , and the inferences they draw can vary . |
| 17 | He had unfortunately proceeded to mar them by fastening them to strips of card with paper clips , which had rusted and left their foul trail on the bookmarks . |
| 18 | The main light was behind him , but I could still see the shadows on his face ; they were more marked than ever , and I had the foolish illusion that I could remove them by stroking them with the tips of my fingers . |
| 19 | It has reinforced them by building them into practice budgets . |
| 20 | They warm them by pressing them against brood patches , areas of skin naked of feathers which a bird may develop specially for the breeding season or have permanently on its breast concealed by the long feathers growing around them . |
| 21 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 22 | Resources should be used to equip people to act in their own interests rather than to pauperise them by treating them as dependents . |
| 23 | Anyone who knows of architects , architectural technicians , or their dependents , who are suffering distress from some misfortune could help them by putting them in touch with the ABS at 66 Portland Place London W1N 4AD , telephone . |
| 24 | Bingham L.J. , at p. 287 , plainly took the view that a customer in a supermarket assumes some of the rights of an owner when he takes goods into his possession and exercises control over them by putting them in a basket or trolley , and thus appropriates them . |
| 25 | They claimed that Philip III of France , his court and his officers had recently ( a modico tempore ) hindered and troubled them by citing them before other courts — not only the Paris Parlement , but the court of the French seneschal of Périgord . |