Example sentences of "them [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 2 | A JEALOUS husband stabbed his wife and her toyboy lover to death after spying on them through a chink in the curtains . |
| 3 | This enables softening to be done simply and economically with waters of a wide range of hardness by passing them through a bed of the granulated material . |
| 4 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
| 5 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 6 | Carter lead them through a doorway onto a staircase . |
| 7 | I mean you may have to support them through a sort of bad patch , but the idea is to erm get them so that they can look after themselves , you know . |
| 8 | The nuns led them through a series of exercises which encouraged them to think about the good in themselves , and to know that God , in His love for them , has forgiven their sins . |
| 9 | It has also produced the Green Partnership , a 12-step programme implemented by the hotels , which guides them through a series of initiatives to make the properties more environmentally friendly . |
| 10 | In this situation the distance/number of links between the pair could be calculated from the ‘ shortest path ’ connecting them through a sequence of intermediate linked probes . |
| 11 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 12 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 13 | Thus many companies see them as a threat to their holding on to their good people , and instilling corporate loyalty into new appointees . |
| 14 | With work plentiful , the women 's influence was " not … much felt … but with the start of depression , more attention was focused on them as a threat to the employment of journeymen " By 1879 , the STC reported that while " the influx of females " was " not unbearably felt " while trade was good , " now the necessity on purely philanthropic grounds of course , of keeping the ladies supplied with copy " , had led to " dispensing with the services of a large number of journeymen " . |
| 15 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 16 | thought that he could create an advantage by shipping some Russian rocket missiles to his friend , Fidel Castro , in the island of Cuba , so that he would be able to use them as a threat against the continent of North America , a comparatively short distance away . |
| 17 | The tribes that had emerged from much earlier migrations were the Iceni and that of Cassivellaunus , who was clearly hostile to the newcomers , seeing them as a threat round the northern borders of his kingdom . |
| 18 | The Ostrogothic king Theodoric cultivated contacts with them , drawing them into his web of marriage alliances , and trying to use them as a check on Clovis in 507 . |
| 19 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 20 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 21 | For me , too , it seems allied with giving the fundamental grief and despair room and expression , using them as a kind of necessary ballast but not taking so much of them on board that they swamp the vessel . |
| 22 | They can let successful managers use them as a kind of bonus or incentive . |
| 23 | Some people feel them as a kind of outrage and violation , and Boden was a strong-minded and passionate man . |
| 24 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 25 | With such ambiguous structures , characterising any debate on how to improve them as a struggle between the principles of self-regulation and statutory regulation is unlikely to add to anybody 's understanding of the issues . |
| 26 | They criticize them as a blueprint for turning Britain into Europe 's toxic dump . |
| 27 | He says : ‘ Writers like Richard Streeton tell me they carry it around with them as a work of reference , using it to find out whether odd events have happened before . |
| 28 | He scorned them as a man of action must despise all faint-hearts . |
| 29 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 30 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |