Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] them [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I resolved to remain alive in an unofficial capacity , which of course annoys them all immensely . |
| 2 | This translates into an average eighteen pounds reduction in council tax for a band E dwelling which could be passed on to council tax payers in their ninety four , ninety five bills or of course allows them more flexibility in their general financial planning . |
| 3 | She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets . |
| 4 | It must be an awful lot of money to make them this worried . |
| 5 | Richard 's disregard for their cherished customs of inheritance threatened them all , directly or indirectly , and provided a cause to which all could rally in defence of the right order of their world . |
| 6 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
| 7 | Days later , Fernandez suspended the Queens school board that refused his curriculum , and ten days after that the board of education reinstated them all . |
| 8 | That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them . |
| 9 | The existence of monopoly denies them that opportunity , and this is manifest in the inevitable reduction in total surplus . |
| 10 | A long white strip of cloth linked them all from hand a hand as they made their way down through the sleet and the open snowy fields . |
| 11 | But before he could finish a clang of metal and a shattering crash of glass caused them all to spin round . |
| 12 | Religion acts as a restraining force on human nature , and er , raises people , as it were , to a higher , to a higher level , by for example giving them more proscriptions , like the ten commandments . |
| 13 | She preened her elegant nose , turning her head slightly in order to give them all the benefit of her profile . |
| 14 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 15 | Our cautionary comments and suggestions are offered to ease the transitional processes of attachment and detachment in order to improve them both for the individual and the organisations involved . |
| 16 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |
| 17 | Vicki is praying that the rescue ship she knows is on its way will arrive in time to save them all . |
| 18 | But the searing contact mouth to mouth set them both trembling . |