Example sentences of "them [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at the size of the puddles , chalk round them , cut string to stretch round them or use small bricks to surround them . |
| 2 | But you appear not to have noticed a few glaring facts like that women in general do n't rape men , or beat them up , or design weapons or make the laws and enforce them or hold enough jobs of influence and authority to make an iota of difference to the way this bloody patriarchal shit-heap is run . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We were supposed to follow our scriptures , ’ she explained , ‘ but all he [ the high priest ] did was to change them or make extra things up to suit what he wanted to do . ’ |
| 4 | He had lent £500 to the BFs to liquidate pressing debts , and in order to obtain repayment had either to bankrupt them or obtain financial backing from elsewhere . |
| 5 | I 'd rather it was with them than buying expensive misfits all the time . |
| 6 | On the practical side , Beccaria makes the quite unwarranted assumption that more serious crimes are more attractive and of necessity require more serious punishments to deter them than do lesser ones . |
| 7 | Indeed , it could be argued that the collective influence of the processes discussed in this chapter have made a greater impact on the cities and those living within them than has inner-city policy . |
| 8 | Them that caused this war and them that 's getting fat on it should be made to fight it out between them , not our fellers . ’ |
| 9 | Well I have to tell the minister that the firms are advertising for detection services all the time , K P M G Peter Marwick advertising this , they will er investigate financial frauds and rectify and recover from them that requires specialised accounting skills , K P M G forensic accounting offers experience in the techniques of fraudsters and the procedures er they may have followed . |
| 10 | " The Lord our God is one Lord ; them that serve other gods , God shall judge . " |
| 11 | How different they were ( we who worked in primary schools thought ) from the secondary schools described in the Newsom Report of 1963 in which ‘ children sat through lessons with information and exhortation washing over them and leaving little deposit ’ . |
| 12 | The next development was of those which required a larger number of people to build them and became corporate activities and into which the community cattle and goods could be taken and defended . |
| 13 | The next development was of those which required a larger number of people to build them and became corporate activities and into which the community cattle and goods could be taken and defended . |
| 14 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 15 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 16 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 17 | ‘ However , these animals are here and we must look after them and make full use of them to bring the attention of people in Northern Ireland to the plight of thousands of other , much less fortunate , chimpanzees . ’ |
| 18 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 19 | Calvert favoured large investors who would bring indentured servants with them and granted large manors to these planters . |
| 20 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 21 | If this sort of technology was introduced into commercial-sized refrigeration plants , they could be turned off during peak times and then switched back on during low demand periods , saving money for the companies that own them and using less energy . |
| 22 | well look at some of the apples you were getting round about Christmas , they had brought them in , they had polished them and put that spray on to make them look shiny |
| 23 | It was on a programme the other night saying the advice bureau are on the er companies cos some bloke , they were employing him to do something and he sued them and got two grand out of them . |
| 24 | They remained , therefore , on the outskirts of the town , until , terrified of being crushed by the mob , they decided to seek refuge in the open fields , but they had hardly agreed on this when fresh ash clouds , denser than ever , overwhelmed them and brought total darkness . |
| 25 | In its most heroic and grandiose form , it proposed no less than this : that working people should take over the industries which employed them and organise those industries into nationwide co-operatives , the whole to be in the charge of one , all-inclusive trade union . |
| 26 | The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data . |
| 27 | PP : of course , Ben always challenged the artists he wrote for , extended them and offered new insights into the capabilities of their own voices or instruments . |
| 28 | Those who , like Ehrenreich , acknowledge the utility of medical science , want to decontaminate its practice by changing the class , sex and racial composition of medical personnel and promoting a cultural revolution in medical institutions to " purify " them and instil new values . |
| 29 | The key to success is to be able to recognize the different behaviours in yourself , to control them and to use this knowledge to develop your relationships . |
| 30 | It seems to me , if a literary critic may be allowed a comment on these linguistic matters , that the function of the first- and second-person pronouns is rather to relate two people , to set up a plane of relationship which includes them and excludes all others . |