Example sentences of "them [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conception that a Lusignan should humour the fools , to persuade them that surrender would not be dishonourable ? |
| 2 | The anxiety of the papal reformers to put all clergy under a rule shows that experience suggested to them that celibacy could only be enforced on monks or folk living a quasi-monastic life . |
| 3 | There Terauchi informed them that independence would be proclaimed . |
| 4 | Maureen , who was now the manageress of the wool shop , had warned them that wool might be in short supply so they had all bought plenty of every colour , including a lot of khaki . |
| 5 | Northern Ireland 's experience in Spain and Mexico in the last two World Cups taught them that heat can pose more problems than the opposition for British-based players . |
| 6 | An appeal has now been launched to encourage more donors to come forward — without them some patients will die . |
| 7 | Wooden pegs in your sole , they used to drill 'em and they used to put wooden , and them wooden pegs would n they 'd never come out , cos if you put nails in , the nails would rust . |
| 8 | Without them this country could not meet its NATO and home defence commitments . |
| 9 | Without them this industry would collapse . |
| 10 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 11 | ‘ Whoever tops them this season will win the League . ’ |
| 12 | Now , however , he , Alfred and their sister Godgifu were abandoned to what must have looked like permanent exile in the Norman court ; Edward was doubtless on his way there when he visited the monastery of St Peter 's Ghent in December 1016 and , according to a charter , promised them English lands should he become king . |
| 13 | Only if the Westminster Government and its back-benchers are made to believe that this continuing insult to a noble and valuable aspect of Scotland 's heritage will cost them crucial votes will they even begin to take serious notice . |
| 14 | In short , we may conclude that there is no need to suppose that industrial co-operatives in particular can not become large , or even very large , and remain successful businesses and authentic co-operatives but that the need to accommodate within them satisfactory constituencies may well affect their structure . |
| 15 | Them little bleeders 'll be here any moment now . ’ |
| 16 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 17 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 18 | In order to make sense of them inferential skills may be needed , as well as an understanding of certain principles not unlike the minimal distance principle that operates for pronominal reference . |
| 19 | Do n't get them same time will you ? |
| 20 | He is not convinced that having read them aspiring managers can go away and teach themselves to be good leaders . |
| 21 | I do n't think er , they 'd be very practical really to wear them packy bags would they ? |
| 22 | Replacing them next year will be Sussex and Cheshire . |
| 23 | Well that would n't please them next door would it ? |
| 24 | Supporting them next Tuesday will be Unison Tut . |