Example sentences of "them [adv] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A letter card came from France , but it told them little except that he was well and a letter followed . |
| 2 | I 've already informed them confidentially that as my future wife you wo n't be interested in continuing to work for them . ’ |
| 3 | If your child is slow at school , you suspect it 's because you are not with them enough or because you should have read with them more . |
| 4 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 5 | ‘ These days they build breaks into them so that if they do knock one over by mistake , it does n't take the whole lot with it . ’ |
| 6 | Well they wear them so that when they 're putting out the fires they do n't hurt their heads . |
| 7 | and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't play in the five-asides but then I did n't play in them much before because I tend to get too argumentative and carried away sometimes . ’ |
| 9 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |
| 10 | Sunil had sent three of them tonight and if he kept that rate up they 'd need a double-decker bus to follow me by Christmas Eve . |
| 11 | The theory of politics argues , on the supply side , that political parties , in bidding for support , end up by promising more than they can deliver and that , on the demand side , this leads to inflated expectations since the electorate have incentives to vote for increased services because they do not pay for them directly and because there may be little correlation between tax payments and government benefits . |
| 12 | Yeah , so what to call them if we 're going to change the name , or what we will eventually change it to , we 're not going to change them now and whether they 're mandatory or not and whether we need to change them to say that . |
| 13 | Whatever his personal misgivings , Valenzuela hid them well and when his compulsory military service ended he signed on for a permanent career in the Air Force . |
| 14 | The doctor at the hospital told me about the pill , but said you have to take them regularly and if you forget even once , then you 'll get pregnant . |
| 15 | Erm if I want them quicker than that they cost more . |
| 16 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 17 | How do we know whether people gave money to their parents because they felt a sense of duty to support them financially or because they feared prosecution ? |
| 18 | have n't been doing them recently but when I 've been able to get a , er an evening away that 's what I |
| 19 | There was no need to say ‘ a ’ ball , ‘ a ’ window , since the researcher was looking at them too and so they were , in common to both viewers , ‘ the ’ ball , ‘ the ’ window , Were researcher and student both watching an actual event in which someone kicked a ball through a window ; the use of ‘ the ’ would be obvious and the ‘ frame ’ as it were would not need to be drawn . |
| 20 | However , it is not obvious whether the respondents expect this to happen to them specifically or if it is a population level observation . |