Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 2 | YOUNG accountants at top City firms , recruited in the late 1980s boom when one in 10 graduates trained as an accountant , are being encouraged to take unpaid leave or extended holidays because the recession has left them with no work to do . |
| 3 | The dragonfish has expanded them into spectacular defensive weapons , each ray barbed with poison . |
| 4 | Occasionally long-term contracts have been used , but recent experience has shown them to be uncertain , given the volatility of currencies . |
| 5 | Their religious faith has sustained them in sickness , and in health has prompted concern for the ills of others . |
| 6 | At Tewkesbury Abbey knights in armour appear as themselves — no attempt made to blend them with saints |
| 7 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 8 | Hosea has to recall them to Yahweh , their first love , when they have gone and committed adultery , like Hosea 's own wife , with some other ‘ Lord ’ on whom they have lavished their worship and devotion . |
| 9 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 10 | Indeed , 12 promising assistant managers are being selected annually for a development programme designed to prepare them for promotion to general managers . |
| 11 | The Christian Democrats and Socialists did not relish the idea of Cold War in Spring 1947 but their liberal-democratic sensibilities and need for US financial aid helped push them towards co-operation with America ( whose support was also vital in resolving the future of western Germany ) . |
| 12 | The other type is the roll-all , which opens out to allow you to slot the rods and other items into small pockets stitched along the bottom with tape ties to hold them in place . |
| 13 | We shall also continue our annual research into the working methods of electoral registration officers , and produce updated best practice notes to assist them in compiling an accurate register . |
| 14 | In truth this troupe did not receive the idolatry that his juveniles had aroused the previous year , but they must have pulled up their silk stockings because when they went on tour later one reviewer did describe them as : |
| 15 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 16 | Within weeks Stagecoach had turned them into $ 5.1 million and still had half the operation left . |
| 17 | mummy 's got them in her pocket |
| 18 | Only Tranmere have beaten them in the league this year . |
| 19 | The archaeologist stood watching them with that fixed grin , staring into their souls . |
| 20 | I do not wish to oppose the previous order , although it is debatable — merely to refer to it in passing , to say that I hope that , when the Select Committee on Health takes evidence on the national health service trusts , no witnesses will be intimidated by threats of disciplinary action intended to prevent them from giving evidence . |
| 21 | ENGLAND 'S defeat in the first Cornhill Test has left them with even more problems than those produced by last winter 's disastrous tour of India . |
| 22 | There are cases where owners genuinely believe that their pet cat has followed them by some mystical means to a new home several thousand miles away from the original one . |
| 23 | One expert has described them as ‘ the most primate-like non-primate ’ . |
| 24 | Is he further aware of the bribe that that council is offering to its tenants in the form of a rent freeze to try to dissuade them from opting for new landlords in Commission for New Towns and council house properties ? |
| 25 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 26 | A council has banned them from putting metal shutters on their windows , saying it would spoil the look of the town centre . |
| 27 | The Judge has sentenced them to be detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure for ’ very very many years ’ . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) The London Stock Exchange may , at the request of the Panel , withdraw temporarily the facilities of the market from an offender ( for instance , a bidder which wishes to issue its own listed shares as consideration for the bid will be unable to do so if the London Stock Exchange refuses to admit them to listing ) . |
| 29 | Their personal responsibility for decision-making seemed to elevate them above the social struggle , to make them neutral arbiters between the competing interests of nobles , townsmen , and peasants . |
| 30 | As the bulbs begin to swell , expose the tops to the sun to help ripen them to a golden colour . |