Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these stalwarts could , I am sure , play at a higher level of football and we are lucky that their devotion to the club and my management skills keep them here . |
| 2 | The anxiety of the Tsar and Tsarina to shield their haemophiliac son led them to withdraw into a narrow family circle , incurring the displeasure of members of high society . |
| 3 | The John Tillers were settled in the Ziegfeld Follies when the Lawrence Girls turned up in their practice outfits to join them . |
| 4 | Liverpool went further ahead five minutes before the interval with a penalty from Jan Molby , but their half-time advantage flattered them . |
| 5 | Their sonar system enables them to communicate with each other , to ‘ see ’ through echolocation , and they cam possibly even stun fish sonically . |
| 6 | If she could only keep the secret a week or two more it might be possible , after her uncle had gone away to sea , to persuade her Aunt Ann to let them marry . |
| 7 | The project concentrates on the employment experiences of the graduates in question and examines the extent to which their degree courses prepared them for employment . |
| 8 | And with their home form letting them down again this was their sixth successive home game without a win then there is n't much chance of that . |
| 9 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 10 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 11 | • Most professional male swimmers shave off their body hair to make them more streamlined and thus swim faster . |
| 12 | While they provide a context in which to appraise the changes made by the Act of 1935 , which was I think the purpose for which Mr. Whitaker cited them , I did not find them of direct assistance . |
| 13 | To pick out just a few examples : grandparents treat their grandchildren in the same way whether they live in Aberdeen or London ; middle-class people use money to support their close relatives in similar ways whether they live in Swansea , Sheffield or London ; people use their kin network to help them find employment whether they live in Glasgow , Basildon or Corby . |
| 14 | Though she had not pressed them , as her friend Lois pressed them in between the pages of her Bible . |
| 15 | ‘ Those at the power station , for instance , live in hostels at the plant during their working week to save them having to make the three or four hour journey each way from Shenzen where their homes are . |
| 16 | In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth . |
| 17 | While in the world as a whole the dispossessed may outnumber the reasonably well-off by some four to one , in the democratic ‘ market economies ’ of the capitalist world their minority status assures them lasting subservience to the democratic majority . |
| 18 | This is because their world knowledge tells them that the banks found near rivers are not usually of the financial type ( although it must be stressed that this interpretation is not wrong , it is just less likely ) . |
| 19 | The role of tender panels is to bid for the notes issued by the corporate and to use their placing power to transfer them to investors . |
| 20 | The pigs will be at sea for about a month and Cobbledicks of Torrington has supplied enough of their Supersow feed to last them until they reach their new home . |
| 21 | Later Ramsey used to mock the complacency of clergymen who said that their training college gave them habits of devotion ‘ which they had never lost ’ . |
| 22 | Women make up one million of the new union 's members and will be guaranteed two-thirds of its executive seats to give them effective control , although the three top salaried posts will be filled by men . |
| 23 | it needs is it needs us to have an input with their project manager to evaluate them . |
| 24 | Their class instinct tells them that lasting full employment is unsound from their point of view and that unemployment is an integral part of the normal capitalist system . |
| 25 | Indeed , as I mentioned above , there is plenty of evidence from research with the very young infants that their input systems allow them to make appearancereality distinctions ( for example , apparent versus real shape ) at so young an age that the possibility that they have to rely upon records of their actions to do this is just not worth considering . |
| 26 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 27 | However , their daily search for food takes them on journeys requiring considerable navigation skills , and their time sense helps them here as well . |
| 28 | Sprayway are renowned specialists in garments for active people whose leisure pursuits take them outdoors and into extreme conditions . |
| 29 | Species co-existence levels in rain-forest mammals ( and reptiles ) are lower than in birds , whose locomotor abilities allow them access , at a low-energy cost , to food unavailable to species confined to terrestrial or arboreal substrates . |
| 30 | Unlike the civilian quality control inspectors of the Department of Technical Control ( OTK ) , whose salary arrangements link them effectively to their enterprises , the voyenpredi are in every sense the agents and servants of their respective services . |