Example sentences of "them [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 32 | It must be its isolation which has kept them so unreasonably concealed from common knowledge . |
| 33 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 34 | He was still sick and light-headed with the fever that had kept them so long immobilised at Cegidfa , and made the ride home such long-drawn discomfort to him ; but the sorry account he had to make of his stewardship weighed more heavily on his spirit than his wounds did on his body . |
| 35 | them so quickly do n't they ? |
| 36 | Whether pink or stripy , or black and hairy , they are almost all first generation wild fruits from endangered habitats in the Third World , though some of them so now languish in the hot-houses of New Zealand or the Channel Islands . |
| 37 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 38 | They saw a great deal of each other , but , because Diana was so much younger and usually just one of a party , no one who saw them together ever suspected she was a girlfriend . |
| 39 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 40 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |
| 41 | he did , I 'll have his then , I said no you wo n't , but I like them , I know , but you ca n't have Martin 's , as Martin will cry , I buy him another one he 's absolutely mad on cream eggs , you never liked them when you were at his age , you do n't really like them much now do ya ? |
| 42 | Their respective economic stopping points may not leave them exactly equally matched . |
| 43 | You should of said well alright , I 'll take them away then took them right away then , |
| 44 | No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted . |
| 45 | The local government information unit , the labour party in disguise er I do n't think we need to er waste money on having propaganda coming from them just simply attacking the government , completely wasted . |
| 46 | Tie in the new shoots on climbing roses , bending them over horizontally to encourage flowering side shoots . |
| 47 | Have them fucking ready made up and just |
| 48 | This might well have saved them not just travelling time , but also energy . |
| 49 | I get it form most of his kind , who remember that I was once a private investigator , and so to them not far removed for law . |
| 50 | Until recently they were joint stewards of the Royal British Legion in Swindon , into which they 'd poured four and a half thousand pounds of their own money , and just months ago received a letter from the board telling them not so work so hard . |
| 51 | Use them not only to record information , but also to explore your understanding of historical topics and issues . |
| 52 | The white boys impute an imaginary position of advantage to blacks , which allows them not only to deny the actual conditions of black oppression , but to claim them as their own , in order to justify exclusionary practices which keep blacks ‘ one down ’ and themselves ‘ one up ’ . |
| 53 | The sonic pulse systems emitted by toothed whales are directional and most species seem to use them not only to detect food but also to make fine distinctions on the basis of the echoes . |
| 54 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 55 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 56 | Governing bodies must develop strategies for cooperation across LEAs which enable them not only to share some resources , but also to apply greater pressure on decisions about the size of the education budget . |
| 57 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 58 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 59 | It is vital that our children have the best possible education to allow them not only to have the best possible standard of life and maximise their opportunities , but for the benefit of Britain , so that we can compete in the world in trade and industry . |
| 60 | One of the strong impressions that I took away from the secondment was the ability of C&P managers at all levels to use various diagrammatic models to help them not only explain the workings of the company , but to help them analyse problems and synthesize solutions . |