Example sentences of "[prep] them [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 2 | I knew perfectly well that if ever that crowd got hold of them none of them would have been left to tell the tale and took immediate steps for them to escape by the windows at the rear of the premises . |
| 3 | Yeah but none of them none of them have had a brilliant album out . |
| 4 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 5 | These people bring with them something of the evangelist 's zeal . |
| 6 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 7 | Willie 's grey trousers seemed more crumpled than ever , but with the braces attached to them they at least felt comfortable . |
| 8 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 9 | The ship 's library , in addition to all the necessary navigational books , a Bible , a Book of Common Prayer , accounts of Antarctic expeditions and a dozen or so lurid paperbacks , contained one or two self-help books , among them one on the rigging and canvassing of sailing vessels . |
| 10 | Of our present flock , the high-layers favour various niches , among them one in an old pheasant crate resting on rafters in the old cow-shed . |
| 11 | Faced with a horribly complex problem , do you : a ) Panic ? b ) Go back to bed ? c ) Break the problem into pieces and look at them one at a time ? |
| 12 | Bemused , Sara stared down at them What on earth was Matthew up to now ! |