Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] them [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is uncertain how these criteria will operate in practice , for example , whether they will allow a host state to maintain a prohibition on floating interest rates on mortgages where financial institutions authorised by other member states provide them freely .
2 socket joint have grown , because they will grow , they both get bigger and the muscles and ligaments hold them firmly together , right , so that the hip no longer slides out of its joint .
3 He says the countryside brings in tourists and the attractions teach them more about the countryside .
4 Nonetheless , many heads resolve them too conservatively .
5 ‘ The Scots call them simply pebbles .
6 Not many growers offer them any longer as a separate classification , and there is a general tendency to lump a few — if any — with others in a rather cursory grouping as Old roses .
7 And when they tire of their offerings , Believers throw them away to replace them with ‘ better ’ things .
8 So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air
9 ( 2 ) those whose circumstances make them highly likely to experience an event to which they are particularly vulnerable ;
10 To suggest that the courts will ever completely rewrite a statute is a great exaggeration ; and even judges who accept the literal rule in words will depart from it when the circumstances press them hard enough .
11 Going back to those first commands and prohibitions on which ( among other things ) conscience is founded , it is apparent that some babies heed them more readily and consistently than others , and that some parents convey them more effectively than others .
12 So it is not surprising that each field-worker tries to select an unstudied people , or if that fails , a community whose present circumstances render them acutely interesting for ‘ theoretical reasons ’ .
13 A total of 37 in every 100 women believe that bankers treat them differently just because of their sex .
14 At Knossos , several different kinds of textile or garment were stored and doubtless some were exported ; the tablets describe them variously as ‘ with wedge pattern ’ , ‘ with white fringes ’ , and ‘ of better quality ’ ( Driessen and Macdonald 1984 ) .
15 Choose a pair of combination pliers with fine and coarse serrated jaws and a wire cutter near the pivot point ; plastic hand grips make them more comfortable to use , and also provide protection against the risk of shock during electrical jobs .
16 More messages make them more active , and more likely to add phosphate to receptor molecules .
17 Some guides and camp managers claim to know safe swimming spots , others say the crocodiles know them too .
18 It is furthermore of great importance that the devices interfere less with working procedures than traditional shielding equipment does , and it is experienced that investigators use them more frequently than the traditional large shields .
19 Composers use them frequently , in order to avoid the rigidity of true canonic writing .
20 Her mother 's hands were very important — a distant importance for they scarcely ever touched her ( old Nan still did up her buttons ) , or she them ; but she felt a longing to kiss their faintly pink thumbs bite them perhaps , not to hurt , of course .
21 When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities .
22 So , in a sense , it gives forewarning ( though no more than that ) of one problem which may emerge when the disclosure regulations make them increasingly familiar with APR and the cost of credit .
23 One reason for this is that the agencies supply them efficiently with information about assignments .
24 The Iranian attacks in September 1980 on Iraq 's southern terminals put them totally out of action .
25 But they should welcome it if in fact their dealings cost them materially less than at present .
26 It seems that one of Mme Huyghe 's predecessors put them there sometime after the Second World War and then forgot all about them .
27 Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection .
28 Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents , their machines give them virtually no protection .
29 Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection .
30 Most organisers set them rigidly in straight rows without checking whether some other design might give everyone a better view and provide more working and movement space .
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