Example sentences of "them [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 2 | and put them through an educational programme as a conditional of a probation order . |
| 3 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 4 | You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it . |
| 5 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 6 | undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration , the many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
| 7 | Asylum procedures exist to ensure the protection of those genuinely at risk , but they are in danger of being undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration . |
| 8 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 9 | Regard them as an annoying incident , a mere ripple on the pool — do not drown in it , it is not the end of the world . |
| 10 | However after today 's result Morland staff say no-one will ever see them as an easy target . |
| 11 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 12 | I think that , and I know that members from the D S O board , many members excuse me , er agreed that there seems a need to be a more positive approach taken to save the schools and other organisations within the county council network , when considering erm , the uses of the D S O , the advantages that that has not only on the county council , but them as an individual school , college or whatever . |
| 13 | Landowners within the forest regarded the restraints imposed upon them as an arbitrary intrusion upon the rights of property which was contrary to natural law and justice . |
| 14 | ‘ We do n't buy many sweets but the girls do enjoy them as an occasional treat — and I sometimes use them as a bribe ! |
| 15 | He kissed her bunched fingers again , then quickly dropped them as an elegant woman paused by their table . |
| 16 | Had the situation been different and plastic bullets had been fired , the longer-term consequence would have been to have moved the police significantly towards the position where the use of baton rounds was perceived by them as an appropriate method of crowd dispersal during large-scale civil disturbance . |
| 17 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 18 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 19 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |
| 20 | Rows of simple smaller moon shapes in Fair Isle make a very basic but very charming border , or arrange them as an all-over pattern . |
| 21 | Generally it falls , although I 've used as the sub-heading , I suppose the overall title of this area is perception organisation , the way that erm things become organised , how we perceive them as an organised whole . |
| 22 | Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ? |
| 23 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 24 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 25 | So if the carriages are at the right , you must set them for an anti-clockwise circle , if they 're at the left , for a clockwise circle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 26 | Alex stomped by and declined to join them for an early morning cocktail . |
| 27 | Economy of arm movement is important since the more you flail them about , the longer it takes to ‘ cock ’ them for an effective punch . |
| 28 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
| 29 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 30 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |