Example sentences of "[vb past] to them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a month we reported to them on the editorial , marketing and financial developments of the magazine . |
| 2 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 3 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |
| 4 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 5 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 6 | When word came to them of the Macleans , three galleys off the Rubha Aird Druimnich , they just sat and waited quietly for their enemies to arrive . |
| 7 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 8 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 9 | It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant . |
| 10 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 11 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 12 | The experiment in which people inflicted electric shocks on subjects who were actually actors is known to all psychology students , and even journalology has an important study that depended on deception : editors had papers that they had already published resubmitted to them with the titles and addresses changed and then rejected most of them — providing evidence , the researchers argued , that editors and referees were biased against authors from provincial universities . |
| 13 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 14 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 15 | On one occasion he complained to them of the insubordination of two of the officers . |
| 16 | We complained to them about the target . |
| 17 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 18 | I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures . |
| 19 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 20 | I do n't like the idea of Ventolin this is what I said to them at the hospital that I ca n't , cos I 'm not on |
| 21 | ‘ Num quid vis ? ’ he said to them in the taxi . |
| 22 | Well I said to them before the game ‘ you know , people are saying can we make the players , can you win ten out of twelve ? ’ . |
| 23 | Jacques Donzelot has argued that women actively colluded with doctors because of the new-found status that accrued to them within the family as educators of their children and as medical auxiliaries . |
| 24 | I explained to them about the act I 've got . " |