Example sentences of "them [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 2 | I wish I could remember the words , but I 've forgot them so I just hum along with the tune . |
| 3 | ‘ Because you 've found something out about them that nobody else knows ? ’ |
| 4 | But these studies have had their critics , and it is to some of the key criticisms of them that we now turn in chapter 7 . |
| 5 | Will he also remind them that we now have a surplus on steel products of £1 billion per year compared with a deficit of £1 billion per year under Labour ? |
| 6 | On his return to France he was so enthusiastic about them that he even planted a trial field and let the local population steal them so that they could experience this new vegetable for themselves . |
| 7 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 8 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
| 9 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 10 | If anyone claims to be from the Gas Board , Electricity Board , council , or any such body , keep the chain on the door and tell them that you only admit such people by appointment . |
| 11 | How do you communicate to them that you really like them ? |
| 12 | The black cloud fizzed its way towards them until it almost filled the screen . |
| 13 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
| 14 | That chain wo n't stop them if they really want to get in . ’ |
| 15 | How we would miss them if they never came ! |
| 16 | All my favourite high street shops seemed to be offering them if you just walked in off the street so I snapped up several . |
| 17 | She could hardly say ‘ Marry one of them if you really do n't want a fine lady ! |
| 18 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 19 | and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it |
| 20 | But they had all their equipment with them and they just stood on the deck and underneath below deck were the people who rowed the boats over . |
| 21 | These secondary resources are so abundant , however , that competition rarely arises for them and they thus constitute a reserve when primary resources are few . |
| 22 | Far from dissuading the rodents , the smell of lavender positively encouraged them and they soon ate through the paper plugs . |
| 23 | Our customers were mostly quiet , farming people ; the captain frightened them and they soon learned to leave him alone . |
| 24 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 25 | ‘ Piss orf , ’ I hissed at them and they calmly turned away and continued down the street , convinced I really was a genuine cabby . |
| 26 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
| 27 | In those areas people can see what Labour councillors are doing for them and they only have to look at what Labour councillors are achieving locally and they will transfer their votes to labour for a national election ’ . |
| 28 | Using a line disturbs all the rabbits ; it touches them and they then dash for home . |
| 29 | The first thing they will then discover is that all the other grown-ups in the room tower above them and they actually have to crane their necks to look at their faces . |
| 30 | These have something of the character and purpose of propaganda about them and they therefore need cautious exegesis , but they at least manifest the king 's view of his subjects ' expectations and in doing so reveal the model to which he felt he should conform . |