Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 2 | Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee . |
| 3 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 4 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 5 | The aim behind this use of the Commissioner 's name is twofold : to give assisted persons more assurance that the Commissioner stands behind them in the proceedings , and to increase public awareness of the grant of assistance and of the Commissioner . |
| 6 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 7 | She , she , looks upon them as a thoroughly disposable commodity . |
| 8 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 9 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 10 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 11 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 12 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ What happens to them in the wood ? ’ |
| 14 | Thus when carnal and financial imagery in the tale finally merge in the puns taille and taillynge at the very end , it is an emblem of how much deeper the " " bretherhede " " and " " cosynage " " runs that the monk and the merchant imagine exists between them in the form of play , or as a polite figure of speech , and how concrete it is . |
| 15 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 16 | Surely it is better that new members feel that they are members of an organization which deals with them in a more personal basis and are not just another number . |
| 17 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 18 | He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now . |
| 19 | It gets to them in the finish and there 's about eight of them |
| 20 | She refers to them as the ‘ Children Of The Crown ’ . |
| 21 | For a good overview of both positions , see Fries ( 1983 ) , who refers to them as the ‘ separating ’ approach and the ‘ combining ’ approach . |
| 22 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |
| 23 | Apples were also taken west to Greece and Italy , and Homer refers to them in The Odyssey , which was written between 900 and 800 BC . |
| 24 | ‘ Men dance and chant , they fight with sticks , and one rides among them on a hobbyhorse , striking them with a bladder filled with pebbles … we do n't forget … ’ |
| 25 | In this way we acclimatised them to the sights , sounds and smells around them in the barn . |
| 26 | She is not blind to Stead 's faults as a storyteller : indeed she actually revels in them as an indication of Stead 's generosity of vision . |
| 27 | Mark poses alongside them as a theatrically seedy rock-hack for the all-seeing lens of Kevin Cummins . |
| 28 | Clive works for them as a delivery skipper . |
| 29 | Your worships , Mr works for Wallbank aerials in Worley and he works for them as an engineer his vehicle was erm something that he did use for work , but unfortunately as a result of the accident his has been written off and he has n't yet been able to er , replace it and so he 's having to be erm er , chauffeured by the company to do his er his work . |
| 30 | Your Worships Mr works for in Worley and he works for them as an engineer . |