Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] them [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual income of a kadi depended not only — or even principally — on his allowance , of course , but also on fees of various kinds ; and it may well be that if indeed the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to receive allowances of only 300 akce a day down to Hezarfen 's time , they did so because their allowances represented a relatively insignificant proportion of the monies they actually received , so that raising them to match the importance of the kadiliks was not a matter of particular moment . |
| 2 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 3 | People may actually be right but that is not an excuse for smugness , and non-interest in what anybody else thinks except to knock them down and force them to acknowledge the superiority of one 's own views . |
| 4 | Is n't it rather that , as Woodbridge implies , the transvestite seems to be a victim of false consciousness , and by switching gender roles rather than dissolving them reinforces the very sexual division which s/he finds oppressive ? |
| 5 | Rather than let them squander the meagre fruits of their labour as they saw fit , their output had to be confiscated by the state for more long-lasting purposes . |
| 6 | ‘ Pompey 's third goal killed us off and allowed them to run the show . |
| 7 | It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation . |
| 8 | If Mr Moynihan is keen to hang on to his job he should get on to FIFA now and tell them to make the booking . |
| 9 | Wilson 's own choice of metaphor was no longer that of the centre forward , but the seasoned centre half feeding passes to his experienced forwards and allowing them to score the goals . |
| 10 | Now detectives can only hope that publicity surrounding the funeral will encourage someone to come forward and help them catch the murderer . |
| 11 | Hard scientific evidence must either help the police to use hypnosis safely or lead them to reject the technique altogether . |