Example sentences of "them [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 2 | We never recorded what information we sent them or received from them . |
| 3 | Do n't worry about the cards , I 'll say I lost them or got mugged . |
| 4 | It 's too easy to tell a child not to make a fuss , it 's a big playground and to go and play away from whoever has hit them or kicked them or fallen out with them . |
| 5 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 6 | Er they were n't built for dogs , yet people brought dogs with them or adopted , let's say , dogs what came there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 9 | I no longer believed them or believed in them , having to believe in myself as a matter of survival . |
| 10 | She loaned them money , saved it for them or doled it out when necessary , all the transactions being written on the souvenir programme of whatever show she was appearing in . |
| 11 | The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory . |
| 12 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 13 | Suppose she 'd managed to acquire personal things of Harry 's , his sunglasses , a pen , even a belt , and wore them or carried them with her , as young people do . |
| 14 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
| 15 | What did you decorate them or did you just leave them plain ? |
| 16 | When machines went funny you just oiled them or prodded them or , if nothing else worked , hit them with a hammer . |
| 17 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
| 18 | Someone must have blown them or snuffed them , because the darkness was sudden and almost complete . |
| 19 | Though an Interagency Country Risk Exposure Review Committee was set up in 1978 to assemble the facts , no one insisted that the banks took notice of them or acted accordingly . |
| 20 | He still drank , began to smoke , and only took notice of his wife and child to shout at them or hit them , usually when he was drunk . |
| 21 | On the way the children straggled behind them or dived down lanes where archways blocked out the steadily mounting sun . |
| 22 | Depending on how influential people were , Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting . |
| 23 | She can not guess at his anxieties or burdens because she has never encouraged him to talk about them or found time to stop whatever she was doing and listen . |
| 24 | Following the meeting a revised order was issued which , while not complying with all of the islanders ' requests , was considerably more acceptable to them than had been the original directive . |
| 25 | He obviously possessed great talents , though he perhaps thought more highly of them than did others ; and he also had a unique capacity for arousing antagonisms and hatred . |
| 26 | ‘ Although it was an ensemble piece , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I felt that Michael and Rita Tushingham were the co-leads because we structured the film more around the two of them than did the play , which was a fairly even four-hander . ’ |
| 27 | Her deep green eyes were made up expertly and there was a wistfulness in them that pierced Roy 's heart . |
| 28 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |
| 29 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
| 30 | He met the old T'ang 's eyes , a look of understanding passing between them that escaped the young Prince 's notice . |