Example sentences of "them [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 2 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 3 | Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred . |
| 4 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 5 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 6 | A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance . |
| 7 | But they they always come and knock for me and you know they kicked that , you it was them that kicked down the walls ? |
| 8 | Yes , as a as a as a porter or a a a erm what they what used to call them that worked on the line , there was a special name for the li the people that read repaired the lines . |
| 9 | They are unlikely to satisfy the test required by the main argument , i.e. that individuals were more likely to succeed in realizing that which reason required of them if subjected to the government concerned than if left to themselves . |
| 10 | He did n't take the stairs : he ducked under them and disappeared into the shadows . |
| 11 | A patch of lights off to the right revealed the presence of a town which slowly orbited them and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 12 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 13 | Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York . |
| 14 | Corbett joined them and waited for the tankards to empty before good-naturedly bullying Ranulf into collecting their horses and making their way back on to the deserted track to Godstowe . |
| 15 | The plane swooped above them and thudded into the earth . |
| 16 | Before such people can act together , a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin . |
| 17 | To be absolutely sure she followed one of them and came to the place where they curved round in front of a tree and retreated . |
| 18 | She left them and went up the stairs which led to the bedroom she shared with Pet . |
| 19 | It was some time before we retrieved them and went into the piggery . |
| 20 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 21 | This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall . |
| 22 | When Jesus had returned to his Father the apostles did as he had told them and returned to the city . |
| 23 | So that meant that he was he could n't sort of do a heavy heavy work so he just used to do odd job things you know , he 'd sell horse and carts and er he 'd go down to the pier when he used to do the fishing boats , he used to come in and he 'd buy a box of fish from them and go round the streets selling them you know . |
| 24 | He picked up the books one by one , opening them at the title page , watching every movement of her pen as she signed them and commenting on the brilliance of each individual plot . |
| 25 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 26 | The arrangements which people make privately for various domestic services are well known and little questioned , although practitioners need to be aware of them and relate to the people concerned in planning packages of care . |
| 27 | This does not apply if the parties agree that the vehicle is not to be used in the condition in which it is when sold , and a document to this effect is signed by them and given to the buyer at the time of delivery . |
| 28 | We we used to have lots , they used to go my father used to put er a a bird a bird trap er bird second time to catch and we used to pluck them and and them and roast by the fire you know . |
| 29 | The crowds on the platform shrieked at them and banged on the glass , then ran to the end of the carriages to climb on to the roof . |
| 30 | But there would be lights in the chapel , Isabel assured herself , peering ahead for a sign of them and flinching from the feel of the rough stone beneath her palm . |