Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that Adolf Sax tried to persuade Wagner to include them in his orchestral apparatus but Wagner perceived that they would not blend well with either woodwind or brass ( still less , strings ) and never used them . |
| 2 | Instead of seeing money — or love , time , success or joy — as in short supply , we will come to see them as our natural birthright , letting them flow through our lives with great ease . |
| 3 | To see them at their best , keep a small shoal , although in an aquarium of your size , two should be quite happy . |
| 4 | To see them at their best , keep a small shoal . |
| 5 | This is not , in fact , the best time of year to see them in their full glory , but you will appreciate , sir , that with the arrival of spring , we will see a change — a very special sort of change — in these surroundings . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have loved elephants since I was a child and it will be fantastic to see them in their natural environment . ’ |
| 7 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 8 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 9 | I would like to thank them for their continuing forbearance and understanding , and for their hard work throughout the year . |
| 10 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |
| 11 | Most of them are performed by women , and most women continue to perform them into their old age , whether or not they have formerly had paid employment . |
| 12 | The hostility which farmers have recently provoked from many environmentalists also helps to confirm them in their characteristic persecution complex , associated with being a small , closely knit minority in an urban industrial society . |
| 13 | Of Charles Hutton : ‘ For the accommodation of such gentlemen and ladies as do n't choose to appear at the public school , I propose ( at vacant hours ) to attend them in their own apartments . ’ |
| 14 | Before then , the toads have to lay in sufficient stores of energy to sustain them during their patient vigil underground . |
| 15 | Such rituals and procedures are designed to restore them to their proper place within the people of God and within the inner circle of his blessing . |
| 16 | Including part-time workers , the LPU said almost 10million people were low paid and pay rises of 25.8 per cent would be needed to restore them to their relative position in 1979 . |
| 17 | The BACKUP and RESTORE programs are opposite to each other , one will backup your programs to floppy disks and the other allows you to restore them to your hard drive . |
| 18 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 19 | The drooping branches of the willow tree seemed to enclose them in its own embrace . |
| 20 | Gabriel had cut inside the turn and was racing to meet them on their other flank . |
| 21 | This morning the 780 employees of Digital in Galway will wake up with a hangover after a night 's mourning and stare into an uncertain future , wishing that some divine intervention could be called upon to extract them from their present straits . |
| 22 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 23 | Second , to better understand such ideas as ‘ press freedom ’ , one needs to relate them to their original context . |
| 24 | It will improve gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow ( unsecured creditors will regard it as similar to share capital ) but the holders will expect a higher yield to compensate them for their higher risk , although this should be less than that expected for preference share capital . |
| 25 | Many hotels use specially designed sets of documents to provide them with their required information . |
| 26 | Mrs Linley , 36 , said : ‘ The only time they can go out is if I am around to escort them to our front garden . ’ |
| 27 | Family and friends are drawn together to witness the covenant and contract the couple make , to launch them into their new life together , and to provide practical help in setting up home . |
| 28 | Thousands of warriors collect from the huge Masai district to have their heads shaved by their mothers before undergoing rituals to launch them on their new — somewhat dull — life as elders . |
| 29 | It was pointless to try to catch them on their own ground as their friends were too numerous and their alibis too readily available . |
| 30 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |