Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 If they are not moving relative to each other at one time , the attraction between them will cause them to start falling toward each other .
2 I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit .
3 ‘ Surely , then , Kenneth , this great grudge of theirs will bring them out against the enlistment ? ’
4 Then they should establish sets of year-by-year targets , the achievement of which will carry them forward towards their ultimate objectives .
5 Smith told them : ‘ If you play really well against what looks like a near full-strength side , some of you will face them in next week 's Test and others will go higher in the national rankings . ’
6 Naturally , if someone has a characteristic you strongly disapprove of you will rate them as being more favourable and vice-versa .
7 ‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’
8 An obvious and good choice of audience is their classmates because the student " reporters " will have a good idea of what would interest them .
9 Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them .
10 Tealtaoich said , very softly , ‘ You know , one of us must approach them . ’
11 AT1 has designed the sets , the rest of us will paint them . ’
12 That at least was the view of many influential Tories worried about who might lead them to victory in the election due later this year .
13 The eve of their life should be free from worry , and stress , and anxiety , and wondering about who will bury them , and who will pay for it .
14 Oh do n't worry about it now , all the plastic things then put put on that blue leaflet for now and then when you 've taken them all off you can put them in the bin .
15 Keep these findings by you for you 'll need them later on .
16 A strange circle — not all of one tribe or one nation , but ever-present , as though rubbing up against him would give them some strength .
17 I 'm fed up with being the target for all those unattached girls who fancy that being seen with me will give them a leg-up in their dubious careers !
18 As a preliminary to their blockbuster , Castle Houses had arranged the awards dinner and subsidised the tickets so that more or less everyone could afford them .
19 In fact I 'll give my neighbours who live opposite , I do n't see a lot of them but they they are my opposite neighbours and of course the 's really I 'm on good terms with I ought to give them I 'll get them a tin of biscuits as well .
20 If there were not sufficient expectation that a failed , conventionally organised enterprise could be restored to viability as an industrial co-operative , the injection of resources into it would divert them from more promising projects .
21 Well we used to make those rings and put the fins on , rivet them on , and the bombs , the , the , the the rings was erm seamlessly weld on a a welder that you two w wheels which were electrically driven and the power was put through them and , and you overlap the two seams like that , and it , as the wheels went round it 'd weld them straight along , they was about eight inches deep seam weld them right down .
22 Marie felt the conversation drifting away from what should concern them most .
23 So if I wanted to I could tell them where to go with that and all .
24 His face too near to theirs might bring them back
25 ( 2 ) A general immunity , possessed by all persons and bodies , from being compelled on pain of punishment to answer questions the answers to which may incriminate them .
26 ( 2 ) A general immunity , possessed by all persons and bodies , from being compelled on pain of punishment to answer questions the answers to which may incriminate them .
27 The screws half the time would leave tab-ends on purpose and there were fights over who would have them .
28 By jumping and bumping your head under the platform the tortoises are walking , on you can tip them onto their backs , they are then helpless to move .
29 By jumping and bumping your head under the platform the tortoises are walking , on you can tip them onto their backs , they are then helpless to move .
30 So I er we used to catch these blackbirds and them in a and pull the string and they used er try and catch them and we used to we used to kill them and and pluck them
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