Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went . |
| 2 | When the skilled manager encounters what , on the face of it , is an intolerable set of work practices , attitudes and performance he does not necessarily take drastic action , he identifies the natural processes of change and accelerates them . |
| 3 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |
| 4 | She came in with a further two bottles of champagne and took them , blue eyes shining , to Alfred , assembling the ingredients for the Rognons à la Didier . |
| 5 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 6 | Those who ‘ have a way with animals ’ are essentially kind of heart and wish them no ill — a mental vibration to which both animals and humans respond with trust . |
| 7 | CU now wants to increase its range of policies and promote them heavily to the growing 50 to 64-year-old market , which will grow by 27 per cent by 2015 . |
| 8 | I went through a bunch of necks and felt them , and after feeling about twenty I said to the guy , ‘ This is the one . |
| 9 | Masses need leaders who can stir them out of apathy and organize them , but once organized they defer to leaders and accord them steadily greater levels of discretion to pursue their own rather than mass interests . |
| 10 | From the centre he took the flat velour package of gems and held them out . |
| 11 | If more of them have to install the equipment to comply with an EC directive , it may eventually be possible to collect large amounts of phosphates and recycle them . |
| 12 | In fact , you are to take a thousand down to the marshes of Kelfazin and leave them there . |
| 13 | Pfrommer dates the groups of objects and places them in their cultural and archaeological context . |
| 14 | She dipped a couple of ratafias and crunched them , smiling . |
| 15 | Considering himself throughout a true Catholic , Henry had been reluctant to enter into close association with foreign Protestant states , and when political necessity had induced him to consider allying with the German Lutheran princes in the 1530s , he had adamantly refused to accept their confession of faith or to view them as co-religionists . |
| 16 | For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors . |
| 17 | Their first tactic was to say they would take away the licence of any striker : their second was to say all striking drivers were in breach of contract and fire them . |
| 18 | How about going wild and making squares of patterns and joining them to make a sweater ? |
| 19 | And if I had to play them today , I 'd have to get off in a room with a record player , probably for a couple of hours and learn them . ’ |
| 20 | We are lucky in that we can draw on centuries of experience and combine them with modern materials in a way that will be pleasing from year one . |
| 21 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 22 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |
| 23 | He motioned her towards another man , made the briefest of introductions and set them off . |
| 24 | ‘ IOSCO wants to reach the point where there is one set of accounting standards and one set of auditing standards , so that companies which file their accounts in more than one jurisdiction only have to prepare one set of accounts and have them audited once , ’ said Auditing Practices Board secretary Robert Charlesworth . |
| 25 | Democratic theory as an ideal construct may recognise the existence of elites in real polities which are to be explained ; a democratic theory which accepts the existence of elites , describes democracy as a set of institutions and builds them into its descriptions as a central restraining factor , is arguably not in the democratic school and might not even be properly called theory . |
| 26 | And it was lack of money that stopped them going away . |
| 27 | For the government to raise large sums of money and redistribute them to purchase social services must have profound effects on the economy . |
| 28 | May I appeal to your readers to send a Valentine 's Day message to the Members of Parliament and urge them to ‘ Have a Heart for Wildlife ’ , to attend the debate and vote for the Bill . |
| 29 | At least in the post-Gazza era in which we now find ourselves , several soldiers have admitted to a level of fear that makes them cry their eyes out . |
| 30 | Identify a selection of cutlery distributors , send them one of your pieces of cutlery and ask them to match it and send their sample and yours back . |