Example sentences of "them [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | bought the wagon round , yeah I made them clear the site cos well actually it 's twelve being as , they are a bit stained |
2 | I 'll fill that in as well , Northern Hydraulics because I 'm paying er hydraulics prices for er seals when we can get them half the price off them . |
3 | The cost of the charter to Aru had long since been settled : Yong would pay them half the sum now , and his relations would pay the balance once we and the cargo had safely reached Aru . |
4 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
5 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
6 | I know , we used to drive round in them half the time ! |
7 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
8 | And even you 'll probably get one or two of them wrong occasionally but most of them 'll be right and when you get one or two of them wrong the teacher 'll say Oh not C K like desk for example not C K on the end of desk because it 's got this letter S in it as well . |
9 | we 've actually had trout in the freezer for ages , and not used them fresh the day I got them I 'll use it and |
10 | They will not be enough on their own , nor is it likely that you will be able to make them fit the question set . |
11 | These days employers are increasingly using psychometric testing ( personality tests ) to try and help them fit the personality to the job ( see pp 117–18 ) . |
12 | Above all , show them that you care and will give them all the support and help you can — even if they are in trouble with the law |
13 | ‘ We are not for having any man turn sceptic , and disbelieve his senses ; on the contrary we give them all the stress and assurance imaginable ; nor are there any principles more opposite to scepticism , than those we have laid down . ’ |
14 | And you had to stay with them all the while ? |
15 | and we were with them all the while |
16 | Oh we took them all the while see . |
17 | ‘ And we gave them all the chance to have a share in the profits . |
18 | ‘ We attacked them , attacked them , attacked them all the way up that straight and round that bend but they kept pounding more and more on and they held us , ’ said Probert . |
19 | Yet Neil Kinnock nearly took them all the way . |
20 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
21 | The corporate rock machine 's loved them all the way , but the goal posts have shifted since Lollapalooza and Seattle , and to sniff out where the dollars are now , Bon Jovi — symbolic of all that was egotistical , bland and stale in hard rock — have to move too . |
22 | Mosley and Joyce , however , were determined to make some gesture of defiance towards the growing crowd which had booed them all the way . |
23 | " You could hardly expect my people , weak and hungry as they are , to carry them all the way from King Darzin 's garden . |
24 | The topic lasted them all the way back to the Campo San Maurizio and it was not until they were climbing the stairs up to their respective rooms that he let himself say : |
25 | Er but he followed them all the way back to a flat on th on the on the complex . |
26 | I had every right to be if there was going to be this sort of hostility between the two of them all the way down into the ice . |
27 | And he used to walk them all the way , I remember once him starting out er from what we call Hole , that 's at the top of the hill there , er starting out to walk them to Newcastle , and he took eleven . |
28 | Sadly , we fell behind early on and never really threatened them after that , although we chased them all the way . |
29 | Alain looked as if he would follow an inch behind them all the way to the farm . |
30 | It 's easy to see how unstable the trainees will feel in the skies with full kit on , so on their first jumps , the instructors are with them all the way . |