Example sentences of "[prep] them [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have something of the character and purpose of propaganda about them and they therefore need cautious exegesis , but they at least manifest the king 's view of his subjects ' expectations and in doing so reveal the model to which he felt he should conform . |
| 2 | These secondary resources are so abundant , however , that competition rarely arises for them and they thus constitute a reserve when primary resources are few . |
| 3 | In those areas people can see what Labour councillors are doing for them and they only have to look at what Labour councillors are achieving locally and they will transfer their votes to labour for a national election ’ . |
| 4 | On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question . |
| 5 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 6 | But these studies have had their critics , and it is to some of the key criticisms of them that we now turn in chapter 7 . |
| 7 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
| 8 | Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse . |
| 9 | And you 'll meet some of them when we actually do that area . |
| 10 | She could hardly say ‘ Marry one of them if you really do n't want a fine lady ! |
| 11 | I love playing against them because you never know quite what you 're going to come up against ’ . |
| 12 | But I 'm not very well with them and I just think they 're terrible . |
| 13 | The first thing they will then discover is that all the other grown-ups in the room tower above them and they actually have to crane their necks to look at their faces . |
| 14 | Personally we do n't put much stock in them but you never know . |
| 15 | And many of those things do have dangers attached to them but they also have , potentially , a bit of f er er fun attached |
| 16 | How do you communicate to them that you really like them ? |
| 17 | I think it 's true to say that we give it to them and we also drink it ourselves . |
| 18 | Some people , all you need is one look at them and you just know their feet are going to smell . |
| 19 | With industries and jobs disappearing around them as they still try to find their way in the new Germany , many east Germans find it comforting to enjoy some harmless fun where , for once , they get the upper hand . |