Example sentences of "them [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 PLEASE — look our for any potential people in YOUR classes and do encourage them to go to this day .
2 They therefore consulted their solicitor to see if it was necessary for them to remain in this country for the purpose of attending the hearing in August .
3 I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank .
4 " Why do we let them stay in that warren ? " cried Silver .
5 Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s .
6 As people grow older , however , they may be more likely to develop illnesses or conditions which make it more difficult for them to cope without some help or support .
7 Few of them recovered from this experience .
8 A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’
9 I thought it particularly nice of them to write at such length , as I had mistakenly called Roy Griffiths Mister !
10 you 'll be , you 'll be sent instructions on what , who to write to and it 's a matter of sorting those out and erm sending out letters to group members like asking them to write to this person or that person , so that 's not too bad , .
11 It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together .
12 She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods .
13 They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands .
14 For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow .
15 Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts .
16 An 80 page Activity Book containing tasks and exercises designed to help students develop skills that will enable them to benefit from any news broadcast in English .
17 He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto .
18 Their sonar system enables them to communicate with each other , to ‘ see ’ through echolocation , and they cam possibly even stun fish sonically .
19 A viewing of the end result is not strictly necessary if the main point of the exercise was to have students perform a task which required them to communicate with each other in English as they did it .
20 Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates .
21 I could imagine them looking at each other .
22 This fact in itself may be a symptom of the illness , particularly if it is not usual for them to behave in that way .
23 Nairn , as a holiday resort , has the name ‘ the Rye of the North ’ , and along the shore and near the golf clubs — one of them built on that land donated by David Thomson 's great-uncle — people park caravans hoping for mildness from the Moray Firth .
24 A batch of them came in this morning . ’
25 I er I nearly fell through the floor a little while ago I was British Gas people and one of them living with this lady and I want to give her half of my lump sum , how can I do to avoid er to effect her income tax or inheritance tax thinking in terms of the inheritance tax limit of a hundred and fifty thousand I said , Well would you mind telling me about how much it will be ?
26 She was suggesting that ‘ relevant ’ skills are best learned in the context in which they are relevant , and that teachers can never be certain that their pupils are acquiring the ability to cope in any particular context unless they see them operating in that context .
27 Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm .
28 To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility .
29 If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs (
30 I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy .
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