Example sentences of "them and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ’ . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | 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 . ’ |
6 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Calvert favoured large investors who would bring indentured servants with them and granted large manors to these planters . |
10 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
22 | This brings in the other theme of how money can corrupt which is obviously shown by the ways in which Pip 's attitude changes towards those around him by becoming condescending towards them and showing little respect and compassion . |
23 | In all cases , the experiences will be more powerful if they relate directly to children 's current theories , and offer them the opportunity to test them and consider alternative accounts . |
24 | Sheffield Wednesday head a list of four clubs who can overtake them and snatch second place . |
25 | They would tend to withdraw from their surroundings , showing little interest in those around them and making few demands upon them . |
26 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
27 | ‘ I carried on dealing in Sevens , servicing them , repairing them and did some racing until the economy picked up again in 1965 . ’ |
28 | Mothers told their children to behave or Eric Cauldhame would get them and do horrible things to them with worms and maggots . |
29 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
30 | The good adviser will value schools ' own programmes , and be willing to participate in them and provide additional help , but he will also try to stimulate other opportunities of cooperation between schools , wide-ranging discussion in courses and occasional meetings , and curriculum development planning meetings at teachers ' centres and colleges and departments of education . |