Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] them " in BNC.
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1 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
2 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
3 | The flight at once broke to the right and formed a defensive circle , the Messerschmitts overshooting them — and probably climbing back to higher altitude . |
4 | The personal qualities of the Masai made them not only attractive to the British but ‘ attractive … to administer ’ . |
5 | Now there is a waiting list of would-be residents for vacancies in existing houses or in new ones , and parents in Providence , Rhode Island , have asked the Wizanskys to help them set up a similar scheme . |
6 | The doorman at the Hilton saw them driving east early . |
7 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
8 | A ‘ strong ’ letter will also be sent to the WBO asking them to consider a re-match with Jimenez because of the close nature of a verdict in which German judge Norbert Krosch scored the fight even at 115 points each . |
9 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
10 | The Archon saw them enter . |
11 | He lifted a strong hand , signalled brusquely for the Mercedes to pick them up , and pushed her into the rear seats , sliding in next to her . |
12 | The DDI reminded them all of the secret police who had run East Germany with an iron fist . |
13 | ( The Mackinnons hosted them here twice , the second time being at the end of September after the pair had crossed the island to catch a boat for islands south of Skye . ) |
14 | On their first stay the Mackinnons gave them ‘ the comfort of a table fully furnished ’ , and a party that night with songs in Gaelic , in whose choruses even Boswell joined . |
15 | It would be a record label for their own music and for the struggling artists just waiting out there for the benevolent despotism of the Beatles to pluck them from obscurity . |
16 | It does not mean they do n't love their families , but sometimes the HC stops them showing it . |
17 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
18 | MIKE SLEMEN last night vowed to bring the Springbok celebrations to a halt when the North take them on at Elland Road , Leeds tonight . |
19 | Whereas the Albemarle Report had seen them as shallow and frivolous , as examples of young people being manipulated by commercial interests , or even as hooliganism , the CCCS saw them as important and creative in their own right — as young people expressing their own point of view . |
20 | Later the Youngs accompanied them to Harold and Isobel Shoosmith 's house where they were to spend the night . |
21 | The extra money is needed by the NHS to treat them . |
22 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
23 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
24 | John the Fletcher took them out of the water and out of his power for a while , but do you think a man like Isambard would ever forget or forgive the crossing of his decree ? |
25 | At a pinch , indeed , Labour and Meretz could rule on their own : the automatic support of two small Arab factions in the Knesset gives them 61 votes in the 120-seat chamber . |
26 | Survivors quietly described how families were destroyed , women abused , men castrated ; how the Gestapo made them play their gypsy violins even while they performed their atrocities . |
27 | You need not so much as move a company across the Glen to fetch them down . |
28 | The catch is that the Department of Energy has had to offer financial terms for the SSEB and the CEGB to persuade them to take on the responsibility . |
29 | It was mid-morning before the Constable remembered them and came to unbolt the lock-up . |
30 | When the challengers , who have a bigger budget and more style than the host body , wanted to open their own village , the ACOC barred them from using the words ‘ America 's Cup ’ . |