Example sentences of "what [pron] [noun pl] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young children believe what their parents tell them , verbally or otherwise : there are no other sources of information . |
| 2 | However , we do know that what children make of television , and how it influences them , is determined to a large extent by what their parents teach them to make of it . |
| 3 | Tibetans believe that men are what their thoughts make them . |
| 4 | Whereas people throughout the communist world were inclined to believe the opposite of what their masters told them ( e.g. Pinochet was a good democrat — why else would ‘ They ’ abuse him ? ) , very often their scepticism collapsed in the face of an unsubstantiated rumour . |
| 5 | In one recent poll 399 out of 400 patients at the Centre for Radiation Studies in Kiev said they did not believe what their doctors told them . |
| 6 | Commonly , the tales of adulterous wives end with counsel to men not to trust what their wives tell them , not to let them out , and so on . |
| 7 | I know they simply write what their proprietors tell them . |
| 8 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 9 | You 'll carry on where Hitler left off , if they let you , getting rid of Jews and Gypsies and colored people and … ’ ‘ … what about the people who wo n't do what you scientists tell them and get pregnant anyway . |