Example sentences of "them [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 2 | It should acknowledge that there are conflicts between critical approaches , and should make the students ' confrontation of them part of the pedagogic process . |
| 3 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 4 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's bad luck for all them blokes in the other counties what never ‘ ad Sandham and the rest to ‘ elp ‘ em , ’ commented the Van Boy . |
| 6 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 7 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 8 | Baldwin showed them some of the curiosities of the house and gave them tea in the Long Gallery , which lie described with more pride than accuracy as ‘ the finest room in England ’ . |
| 9 | The English kings , however , were unlikely to be willing to relinquish a part of their inheritance which brought them revenue in the early fourteenth century of about £13,000 a year , and whose subjects accepted English rule . |
| 10 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 11 | ‘ About time someone put down them niggers like the mad dogs they are , ’ someone cried , raising a laugh from his rescuers . |
| 12 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |
| 13 | Israeli security forces carried out a series of raids in the West Bank on Jan. 22 resulting in the arrest of at least 60 Palestinians , most of them supporters of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) . |
| 14 | He 's given them £342,000 in the past five years to create the ‘ right business environment ’ . |
| 15 | In July 1878 , though , the Bureau of Indian Affairs assumed responsibility for the Nez Perce , and transferred them south to the parched 7000-acre Quapaw Reservation in Kansas Territory . |
| 16 | But Villa had not forgotten the enterprising football that has taken them second in the Premier League , and in an eight-minute spell before the interval , they twice worried Ipswich keeper Clive Baker . |
| 17 | Rumours of a row between Graham and Merson are circulating , and that will only damage still further the Gunners ' cause after two shock defeats leaves them bottom of the new Premier League . |
| 18 | Their legitimate trade may have exceeded their opium trade , but it was their hard-currency resources from opium sales which gave them primacy among the foreign merchants in Canton . |
| 19 | See in them days of the old steam boats and they came from er from Leith and Aberdeen . |
| 20 | If he could n't get rid of fruit here , he could get it in Holy rid of it in Holyhead because the country place were n't so fond of fruit in them days as the English people you know . |
| 21 | Both + and / are extending devices , and compounds formed with them file before the simple number . |
| 22 | Everyone feels healthier there , and so many visitors love the freshness of the high altitude , giving them appetite for the local gratin dishes , the carp and pike , the best butter in the world , light white wines like the Seyssel of Savoy — and of course the famous liqueur , Chartreuse . |
| 23 | Swansea 's victory kept them top of the First Division and was another display worthy of any defending champions . |
| 24 | The four artistes that appeared in this not unnaturally attracted a large and appreciative audience , among them officers from the local police force who subsequently charged the four ladies with ‘ over exposure ’ . |
| 25 | They said I could work just in termtime as long as I give them notice of the definite weeks a month in advance . ’ |
| 26 | The matter is now in the hands of the police , after the shop owners gave them details of the two men . |
| 27 | ‘ One of them toffs from the other side of town ? ’ |
| 28 | THE British Lions were today fuming over two refereeing decisions which they claimed cost them victory in the first Test against New Zealand in Christchurch . |
| 29 | Allister Hutton , Mike Gratton and Veronique Marot are returning to the course which brought them victory in the eighties and they 'll be joined by Berlin Marathon winner Steve Brace , who is using the London as part of his preparation for Barcelona . |
| 30 | For long hauls the rivers still remained more important than roads in NEP , despite the fact that many of them flow to the Arctic and are frozen for long periods . |