Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its main substantive concern will be with young people , with the social institutions with which they interact ( eg family , education , labour market ) and the practices and policies that impinge on them . |
| 2 | The high street stores , and even the designers , are finding there is great value in maintaining , shapes , colours and styles that worked for them in previous seasons . |
| 3 | In the ‘ post-feminist era ’ , equal opportunities are available to those women who ‘ get off their hands and knees and work for them ’ . |
| 4 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 5 | It was particularly delightful to be with the young people , sharing their dreams and concerns and talking with them about the future . |
| 6 | Most people think of stress as the outside pressures and problems that impinge upon them . |
| 7 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 8 | To put the case far too bluntly , one might argue that a fifteenth-century scholar 's chief concern and the measure whereby he was judged was to achieve excellence in that is , knowledge or learning , through teaching and writing ; whereas a seventeenth-century scholar 's chief interest and the measuring rod of his success was the attainment of the high learned offices and the power , salary and perquisites that went with them . |
| 9 | Simon looked up into the massive , spinning construction of wires and girders that soared above them into the night sky . |
| 10 | If you are using this style on a group , it 's worth thinking about individuals ' values and interests and appealing to them . |
| 11 | Lightweight inexpensive fabrics like cheesecloth and muslin can be shirred and hung between rods , wires or traverse poles attached below the ceiling and above the skirting or baseboards , and either caught back at doors and windows or fixed around them ( with rods or wires attached to the top of the frames ) . |
| 12 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |