Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] them the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fincara cried , and light flared over them the woman 's laughing face , and Adam 's burning blindness . |
| 2 | When the vote went against them the Poles simply marched in and took by force the areas they considered rightfully theirs . |
| 3 | A seminar held by Lothian and Borders Police in connection with road safety issues involving the older road user revealed that a key element to ensure enhancement of the safety of this group requires guidance to impress upon them the importance of individual responsibility . |
| 4 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 6 | Unemployment steals from them the economic conditions which supported the new wave of feminism in the sixties and early seventies , but the welfare state , the provision of child benefit , minimal as it is , and supplementary benefit , mean they can survive in the absence of jobs and wages of their own . |
| 7 | Not long afterwards the protesters also dispersed , obeying the order of the chief steward to take with them the newspapers on which they had been sitting . |
| 8 | They are custodians of a vast variety of potatoes — hundreds of genetically differing kinds , no doubt containing between them the secrets of natural disease resistance , tolerance of climate change , chemical-free extended shelf-life , frying without fat absorption and who knows what other desirable characteristics . |