Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Handbook of Over-the-Counter Medicines compiled by Mike Smith ( Kyle Cathie , £6.99 ) lists all sorts of nasty afflictions , from acne to worms , and what you can buy for them at the chemist 's . |
| 2 | ‘ I can leaf through them on the train , and they might give me something to go on . ’ |
| 3 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 4 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 5 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 6 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |
| 7 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 8 | This is a choice between two types of reading , in that one can choose between them on the basis of whether the novel 's contradictions are to be articulated and sustained in the act of reading ( " rhetorically aware " ) or suppressed by the reading ( " aesthetically responsive " ) . |
| 9 | They 'd always be wanting nylons , he thought , he 'd seen what they 'd do for them during the war . |
| 10 | We must organize against them in the wards and in the constituencies to drive this menace out ! |
| 11 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 12 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 13 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 14 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 15 | I certainly would n't refer to them as a peripheral area , that was |
| 16 | Now I 'll put a line to do a transcription transcription goes in an appendix , put your transcription at the back of your work , in according to Appendix A and number the lines , so that you can refer to them in the body or wherever . |
| 17 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
| 18 | And as you are now unemployed , I see no reason why you should n't search for them in a freelance capacity . |
| 19 | If the wife is unable to take a nap in the afternoon when the children are napping , then possibly there is someone who could look after them for a few hours at least one day a week for her to regain her strength . |
| 20 | He or she will look into them with an instrument called an ophthalmoscope to check that the eyes are healthy and there 's no sign of cataracts ( where the lens of the eye is opaque instead of transparent ) . |
| 21 | Hamish Kidd — previously with Heidrick and Struggles — was introduced to them in 1978 , and it was agreed that he would work with them for a year with the aim of establishing that a sale could be arranged . |
| 22 | I must have always wanted to believe in those things ; I did believe in them in a vague sort of way , before I met him . |
| 23 | It is essential in a well-run company that in addition to the feeling of plenty of headroom and space to create and carry out one 's job , there should be absolute confidence that those above will support one and that one can always look to them as a resource or as a help . |
| 24 | Those social scientists who regard human actions as undetermined will look to them as the basis of counterfactual claims . |
| 25 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |
| 26 | And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds . |
| 27 | Right and again , How much would you spend on them in a year ? |
| 28 | These Pakistani fast bowlers are rare talents , and it is disappointing to hear them speak in such negative terms , for it will rebound on them in the years ahead . |
| 29 | The trick is to try and look beyond them to the interviewer and talk as though the two of you are having a personal conversation . |
| 30 | You wo n't remember them after if you do n't look at them for a week but when you come to look at them the night before you 'll be surprised what you do know . |