Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |
| 2 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Japanese companies seem as willing to sell technology , or collaborate on its development , as any other firms , when doing so offers them some advantage . |
| 4 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 5 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 6 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 7 | so they did n't , it only cost them thirty quid for carpet |
| 8 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
| 9 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 10 | perhaps give them some flexibility , is that we could say , if that 's not acceptable to you , we will delay invoicing . |
| 11 | In the case of the bookmarks shown in the photograph on the opposite page , I drew a border around the section that encloses the flowers , not only to give them additional definition but also because the parallel lines at the base help to decorate the bookmark . |
| 12 | In World War II American servicemen who parachuted out of aeroplanes screamed the name ‘ Geronimo ’ as a war cry , perhaps to give them added incentive to jump from a great height , and the karate kiai has something of this in it , too . |
| 13 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 14 | Even if only one peg in a hundred pegger is good enough to give them that chance . |
| 15 | And mostly those were er married men who had a small place of their own which was n't quite big enough to keep them full time . |
| 16 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 17 | They see their social life as a struggle for personal dignity in a general social framework that daily denies them this dignity . |
| 18 | They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin , her thin body and her grandmother 's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease . |
| 19 | He says he only bought them 10 days ago , but he does n't have a receipt to prove it . |
| 20 | No better get them several portions . |
| 21 | Ah Have you never noticed I only have them three days a week ? |
| 22 | In the second talk , Tom Helvin , director of the Diocesan Schools Department , told delegates : ‘ The main reason for our Catholic schools is religious growth and development of the children , not merely to make them practising Catholics , but to involve them fully in parish and church . ’ |
| 23 | The allegation was that the defendants had supplied contaminated water to the plaintiffs thereby causing them personal injury . |
| 24 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 25 | To economize on cash holdings ( which earn no interest ) , financial institutions hold other highly liquid assets which act as reserves , but which nevertheless earn them some interest ( see pages 658–60 ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 27 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 28 | The result is to connect up a network of contracts by a uniform set of rules and thus give them multilateral force . |
| 29 | We 're trying to do things which on many occasions we 're actually doing things which are done at university with them , in a simplified form , of course , but just to give them this perspective , this view of physics . |
| 30 | So that spreadsheet is just sorting them all way across the bottom and all the way across the top . |