Example sentences of "them the " in BNC.
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1 | I am grateful , and can only show my gratitude by giving them the text to criticise under more agreeable conditions . |
2 | On the right are some rocks , and at the foot of them the sheep are feeding . |
3 | ‘ I felt like Coleridge 's Ancient Mariner , who waylays on the street the wedding guests going to the feast , inflicting on them the story of his misfortune . ’ |
4 | Actors who train and go to drama school are usually on grants from local education authorities and to deny them the chance to join the profession — or at least compete properly — is ridiculous . |
5 | After all , becoming a provisional member of Equity does n't give them work , it merely gives them the opportunity to work in the career for which they have trained . |
6 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
7 | One by one the members of the crowd trickled out into the fête , carrying with them the news of Phipps 's death . |
8 | I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me . |
9 | When students are learning to glide , the instructor is not only teaching them the technique of flying a glider , but also how to make decisions and judgements in the air . |
10 | Give them the confidence that comes from knowing that you care , and will help if they have problems of any sort . |
11 | We must have often seemed to deny them the obedience and ‘ proper respect ’ demanded by the institution , for we obviously did not emulate their style and in effect were a vision of impurity existing right inside the body of the organization . |
12 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
13 | Behind them the nests of little lights at Ballinluig and Grandtully had dimmed to orange sparks in the fine drizzle . |
14 | All around them the shoulders of the hills were browned by the fading of the heather , dulled by the weakening sunshine , their expanses turned dusty-blank as though a great grinding had sifted down on them , decades of labour and hardship , and left them blinded . |
15 | Below them the strath spread its pattern like a map . |
16 | On the television in front of them the President of the World said abruptly , ‘ It 's not a question of how I feel . |
17 | For them the Imperial Sun shines on undiminished ! |
18 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
19 | At the same time , I have noticed that women academics can be ruthless bullies of girl students , with the possibly laudable motive of giving them the equivalent of a good shake . |
20 | Both men are reporting what seem to them the facts of the case , and they are the more confident about doing so because no Englishman has arisen to rebut their arguments . |
21 | The poet writes for , and gives a voice to , people whose privileged education has closed off for them the possibility of speaking as limpidly and directly as the speaker of ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ . |
22 | Car sales were uncomfortably large , and with them the July trade deficit ; but the Treasury thought it detected more comforting underlying trends . |
23 | ‘ While some parts of the industry are likely to be very profitable , other parts will have concealed dangers , which could well carry with them the seeds of financial disaster . ’ |
24 | ‘ For some children it would give them the opportunity to wreak mayhem , while other , more sensitive children would be deeply affected out of all proportion to what they had done . |
25 | David Booth took 30 seconds to give them the lead , taking advantage of a defender 's clearance which deflected freakishly off an onrushing forward and into his path . |
26 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
27 | I impressed on them the need to bring independence to Namibia and progress in South Africa . |
28 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
29 | Then there is the story of the man who , as a young law student , fled across the border from the East and now , some 40 years later , has woven the deal which brought another 15,000 , many of them the age he was then , to the West . |
30 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |