Example sentences of "them [prep] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 2 | we used to charge them for using our overhead and erm , so I suppose trolley buses were used here because it was so convenient . |
| 3 | Use them for writing your own personal seasonal message on either biscuits or cakes . |
| 4 | Oliver was very surprised to see all this , and greatly admired them for controlling their sadness so well . |
| 5 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |
| 6 | And then she even thanked them for helping her . |
| 7 | We thank them for helping us . |
| 8 | We thank them for helping us . |
| 9 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 10 | The Duchess of York , in the region to visit one of her favourite charities , has thanked THEM for supporting her . |
| 11 | She almost hated them for ruining her life . |
| 12 | Property is the muscle of the elderly , and you ca n't really blame them for flexing it occasionally . |
| 13 | There are other delicious gestures drawing attention to the feet in La Fille Mal Gardée such as Mother Simone gently tapping her clogs as if thanking them for allowing her to show off her particular style of dance . |
| 14 | It was made for Barclays Bank and we are grateful to them for allowing us to adapt it for our own use . |
| 15 | No , I 've always admired them for doing it their own way and getting away with it all the way to the end . |
| 16 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 17 | I found myself hating them , hating myself for hating them , hating myself for wanting to say so , hating them for putting me in a position of wanting to say so . |
| 18 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 19 | British owners used to blame the princes for making racing prohibitively expensive ; now they blame them for making it prohibitively cheap . |
| 20 | Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’ |
| 21 | Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children . |
| 22 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
| 23 | But I will never forgive them for covering it up , ’ she told Edward Pilkington . |
| 24 | Levi , the fellow whose clothes are so ordinary that Payne Stewart would n't use them for dusting his furniture . |
| 25 | A WEALTHY socialite was branded ‘ callous ’ by a grieving family yesterday — because she has never said sorry to them for killing their daughter . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course you can drive down and drive back and be back soon , ’ she fumed later when Marc had released them after prolonging his cat-and-mouse game with his brother for as long as possible , ‘ but what 's the point when there is no paper ? ’ |
| 27 | Then , in 1811 , he cruelly disposed of the remaining senior mamluks , massacring them after entertaining them to a feast in the citadel . |
| 28 | ‘ As it is , this new crisis they 're having to face might be the thing to push them towards solving their difficulties . |
| 29 | Zilog has filed a complaint against two subsidiaries of Nippon Electric in the US , accusing them of copying its Z80 microprocessor . |
| 30 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |