Example sentences of "[be] [det] [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 I got rid of them all cos they 're all taking them home .
2 I bet they 're all wearing them boots !
3 I do n't know where Moira is , they 're all finished them
4 How much more bad publicity do the Government have to get on the failure of their housing programme from the Duke of Edinburgh , Conservative councillors and their supporters around the country before they do what we are all asking them to do and undertake a planned release of the capital receipts ?
5 IT probably wo n't be enough to save them from relegation to Division II , but Dundee HSFP reproduced some of last season 's promotion-winning style in regaining much lost pride at Mayfield on Saturday .
6 It may not be enough to save them .
7 The amount of luggage which people take with them , even on comparatively short journeys , would amaze those austere travellers who believe that the trunk and a handbag should be enough to carry them anywhere .
8 Yes If it was something like a housewife , if you sold the husband and wife , let's say , a Cover Master or Living Assurance , or the husband 's Health Master , and the wife now wants a Health Master , then nine pound sixty might be enough to give them the maximum benefit .
9 The futility of their efforts is deemed to be enough to teach them the lessons they need to learn .
10 I then had dinner with Trevor Clay , who had taken over at the Royal College of Nursing , and he also agreed that such an offer would be enough to bring them back into negotiation .
11 But the present gap of two or three percentage points between the short rates they pay for money and long yields on gilts may not be enough to tempt them .
12 He and Sara would not want much , and sixteen shillings a week would be enough to keep them , money which Coleridge intended to earn by reviewing .
13 He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel .
14 This system is efficient because the males can gang up on attacking predators and their joint efforts are enough to drive them off .
15 Perhaps the manifest intrinsic contusions which surface in each of the foregoing theories are enough to write them oft , and to show how the same/different metaphysic is nothing more than a potently confused , highly discriminating mixed metaphor .
16 The only publishing company to sell on the basis solely of their imprint , their sales figures alone are enough to make them a publishing phenomenon .
17 No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation .
18 Their financial situation would not have been enough to drive them away .
19 It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 .
20 It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 .
21 Their three tries , all unconverted , looked to have been enough to win them the game .
22 We were all like them once .
23 Yet , if they were all to own them , some mechanism would have to emerge to inhibit their natural sexual rivalry .
24 While there is no doubt that fascist organisations like the National Front have attempted to recruit members from the ranks of football hooligans , there is little to connect them with violence in the game ( Popplewell , 1986:59 ) .
25 Railway embankments are a favourite because there 's little to disturb them as they forage through adjoining gardens for food .
26 Undoubtedly their best moment , and the song 's that doomed them to have bricklayers shouting ‘ Un-belief-a-boll ’ at them for the rest of their lives , ‘ Unbelievable ’ is the ultimate pop-panto .
27 I like things to go through my hands ; things are transitory , ideas are emetic — it 's enough to get them out .
28 Other writers have found that the role of ‘ author ’ is enough to see them through , especially in communities where such figures are familiar .
29 That set of responses is enough to guide them to the female .
30 ‘ One is enough to lead them to Landfall . ’
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