Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 8 | Within weeks Stagecoach had turned them into $ 5.1 million and still had half the operation left . |
| 9 | mummy 's got them in her pocket |
| 10 | Only Tranmere have beaten them in the league this year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One expert has described them as ‘ the most primate-like non-primate ’ . |
| 14 | A council has banned them from putting metal shutters on their windows , saying it would spoil the look of the town centre . |
| 15 | The Judge has sentenced them to be detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure for ’ very very many years ’ . |
| 16 | The winter had caught them by surprise . |
| 17 | Although the Ramsay Committee had suggested them in 1945 , they were never established . |
| 18 | Work had brought them to London , which they regarded as Down South . |
| 19 | It struck her how tatty many of the buildings appeared now the lack of sun had robbed them of their charm . |
| 20 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |
| 21 | Just as we need the rain forests , the fish need the plants , and only healthy , assimilating plants can do the job nature has designed them for . |
| 22 | These people [ the Brazilian Indians ] are wild [ sauvage ] in the same way as we say that fruits are wild , when nature has produced them by herself in her ordinary way … they are still very close to their original simplicity … they are still governed by natural laws and very little corrupted by our own " .1 |
| 23 | As described earlier , they include those who lack other supportive relationships , or whose previous relationship with the deceased has left them with an overwhelming sense of guilt , leading to self-punitive grief . |
| 24 | It was partly about fairs but mainly about Theme Parks , which is what big business has made them into in the US and what they are becoming here . |
| 25 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 26 | very settled in the library er she went to the interview er and she said she 'd er remembered everything that the teacher had told them about how to present themselves at interviews and she went down and the er , the librarian says well , asked her a few questions and he says |
| 27 | When he had retired with their order and the drinks waiter had served them with lime daiquiris , Barney planted his elbows on the table and leaned towards Melissa . |
| 28 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 29 | The unremitting pressure of their role in the politics and violence of Lebanon 's civil war had bonded them into a partnership that meant as much to him personally as professionally . |
| 30 | The first version had a few interface bugs , but Lotus has fixed them with updates and the current version is as bug-free as software can be . |