Example sentences of "them [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 With other feelings we may be burdened by their strength , yet still be free enough to choose whether we express them to others by word or action , indulge them or keep a tight rein on them .
2 The collaborative MIPS Technologies Inc T5 processor development ( CI No 2,165 ) will be aimed at applications requiring high-performance audio , video and networked workgroup computing , and will be a speculative execution superscalar processor — that presumably means that it will execute the next set of instructions that come up before it knows whether the program requires them or does a branch ; it will also include features for multiprocessing , multi-level caches and high-speed uniprocessor systems designs .
3 The T5 will be aimed at applications requiring high-performance audio , video and networked workgroup computing , and will be a speculative execution superscalar processor — that presumably means that it will execute the next set of instructions that come up before it knows whether the program requires them or does a branch ; it will also include features for multiprocessing , multi-level caches and high-speed uniprocessor systems designs .
4 Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides .
5 However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both .
6 Brush your eyebrows to smooth and shape them or try a gel to gloss them .
7 Ask friends what 's worked for them or buy a paperback that offers a realistic diet and know you can keep to .
8 A certain firm famous for their ‘ bags ’ trouser suits , used to do an extensive line of grey anoraks , but they obviously had a visit from the style police and were made to put bits of navy blue and red in them or face a lengthy jail sentence .
9 Mr Shuker wants students of all ages and backgrounds to have access to courses at times which suit them and to see a move away from the traditional September to June academic year .
10 ‘ I hope to launch a public appeal to help them and to open a Post Office account .
11 Utilising certain basic contradictions we must pose this essential situation to the people as a problem which challenges them and requires a response , not just at the intellectual level , but at the level of action .
12 But a boy at Bodedern Secondary School had seen them and told a teacher , and Paul Jones said he showed the marks to three teachers at Gwalchmai school in 1985 and they telephoned the social services .
13 Whilst Jack sat with them and had a beer and a photo taken , I wandered into the gloom of the shop and rather studiously examined some Portuguese washing-up bowls .
14 So we listened to them and had a laugh , , teeny weeny what 's it , polka dot bikini they 're quite funny here .
15 We worked alongside the people by day , observed and committed to memory what went on , recorded these observations after work , later analysing them and writing a report .
16 The student should look out for them and make a mental note of their fascinating and beautiful effect .
17 So she stayed in her parents ' home during the winter , helping to look after the children , making clothes for them and earning a little money whenever she could .
18 In this case the plaintiffs , a firm of estate agents , were employed by the defendants to find for them and to negotiate a lease of office and shop accommodation .
19 First of all they are sorted into groups of similar material : pottery , brooches , pieces of worked stone , and so on ; these may be sent at this stage to various specialists , who will study them and write a technical report .
20 Dexter knew they were hungry for information so he winked at them and made a thumbs-up sign .
21 Well er just wire and they just laid evergreens you know and one and just them and them and made a circle and a
22 They were built with me in mind and I liked them and got a couple from Fender .
23 Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won .
24 Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won .
25 And to a large extent the subsequent history of theology has been determined by the struggle to find the balance between them and to chart a course which will take proper cognisance both of the demands of the inner human self and of the need to hear and recognise the voice that speaks to us from beyond ourselves .
26 To keep them clean , simply wash them and use a good copper polish .
27 ‘ The trouble is people take one look at them and stick a label on you .
28 Even if he was less transgressive than the more notorious Ranters Coppe and Laurence Clarkson [ q.v. ] , he was associated with them and expressed a form of their Antinomianism at the height of Ranter activity .
29 She will slow her pace down for them and keep a close eye on them as they amble along near her , but she will not let them get too far away from the home base .
30 Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there .
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