Example sentences of "[prep] them [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because you 've found something out about them that nobody else knows ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These secondary resources are so abundant , however , that competition rarely arises for them and they thus constitute a reserve when primary resources are few . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question . |
| 10 | The black cloud fizzed its way towards them until it almost filled the screen . |
| 11 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse . |
| 16 | Those four-footed mercenaries must have met someone else who took better care of them because they never returned . |
| 17 | And you 'll meet some of them when we actually do that area . |
| 18 | She could hardly say ‘ Marry one of them if you really do n't want a fine lady ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I love playing against them because you never know quite what you 're going to come up against ’ . |
| 21 | Applause broke out behind them but she hardly heard a thing . |
| 22 | There was the sound of a car behind them and it suddenly became very light . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’ |
| 25 | But I 'm not very well with them and I just think they 're terrible . |
| 26 | Yeah Charlotte you always , I hate the way you always relent and you always say oh well , you know , I should n't be angry with them cos they just wanted some fun and you know , never mind eh , sort of thing and you know , you suc yeah but why do you succumb |
| 27 | He deduced that the nomadic Hebrews had their origins there and had brought no more than a handful of the place names with them when they eventually settled in Palestine . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She opened her arms as if to gather him into them but he simply grinned and walked straight past her . |
| 30 | Personally we do n't put much stock in them but you never know . |