Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] them and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If females are concentrated together then it is much easier for a single male to herd them and defend them from other males . |
| 2 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 3 | It was this that led testators to value them and to confirm their wills in trust form . |
| 4 | They need a few outstanding individuals to lead them and to rally them when they flee . |
| 5 | In ‘ Amongst Women ’ the women finally win through , break the father despite his best efforts to bully them and break their spirits . |
| 6 | It follows that any strategy to protect them and to ensure their future must include all these aspects , rather than attempt to protect one at the expense of others . |
| 7 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 8 | And sometimes they need external authority to control them and give them standards and tell them what to do . |
| 9 | I can see no moral difference between seeking out mongol children in the womb to kill them and putting them into gas chambers after birth . |
| 10 | The social worker will be like a skilled ‘ friend ’ to them , who can help them in many areas of their life , perhaps by suggesting ways of overcoming loneliness by putting them in contact with the type of activity , club , Day Centre or workshop that would interest them , and arranging suitable transport for this ; or , if they are not particularly keen on group social activities , sometimes by finding individual volunteers to visit them and take them out ; although it should be remembered that no social worker or voluntary visitor can ever be a real substitute for care from their own family . |
| 11 | With more express items carrying the same design , it will be easier for all countries throughout the world to recognise them and give them priority treatment . |
| 12 | In Africa visitors are looked upon as a blessing and people go out of their way to meet them and make them feel truly welcome and at home . |
| 13 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 14 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 15 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 16 | Although you may still find them on sale in the spring , they 're unlikely to be at their best by then so now is the time to buy them and get them planted before the bad frosts . |
| 17 | Oh I dug out my , or the company 's in fact , membership of P C W World , erm and tomorrow I 've got a note to phone them and ask them how much their keyboards are for Amstrads . |
| 18 | Ruth would retire behind her screen to read them and stored them in one of her drawers . |
| 19 | Pieper tried and failed to get hold of the outfits to brief them and to gauge their reaction . |
| 20 | What a spot to educate them and teach them , to the best of my humble and weak abilities , their duty towards God and fellow creatures . ’ |