Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Various items get gulped up into my mouth , and after skilful massage with tongue and teeth I transfer them to the plate for additional sculpture with knife and fork and spoon .
2 When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river .
3 They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable .
4 Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly
5 a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and ,
6 If the problems were not put right , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ We would be very sceptical of any housing association which used them in future .
7 Members are given a discount card which entitles them to 10% of all yarn and haberdashery purchases from the shop and they also have the opportunity to sell their garments through the shop on a commission basis .
8 Duosome Cream is a beauty product whose active ingredients include Elastin , Collagen , Vitamins E and F , together with liposomes which carry them beneath the skin to the cells below .
9 ‘ In a matter such as this , the reasoning which led them to their opinion is a vital piece of information which should not be withheld from the House of Commons .
10 Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies .
11 For the traditional élites , it was not charisma but pragmatic power considerations which aligned them with Hitler .
12 To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead .
13 It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life .
14 He spent several weeks calling on the homes around his church to discover the needs of the community and the inhibitions which kept them from church attendance ( Schuller 1974:81 ) .
15 And in fact what marks the two genres off from each other is not so much the nature of the devices , but the nature of the opposition which constructs them as literature .
16 Thus if the first purpose of a particular religion is to help people to a sense of the presence of God and express a response to God , then the study of the ritual which helps them towards this goal must constantly draw attention to this significance .
17 If a supplier decides to increase his market share by attracting higher usage by occasional users , he must first attempt to find out whether they buy competitors ' goods or not , or where there is something about the present marketing mix which dissuades them from buying more frequently .
18 Two men threw bottles and other material at police cars which chased them after a raid at a chemist shop in Tarporley .
19 The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out .
20 From the point of view of teacher activity as pragmatic mediation , operational techniques are the enactment of ideas previously subjected to appraisal which provides them with a rationale .
21 The dilemma which faced them with regard to Artai was complex — even given the clear direction of the Yasa — and no one who was in possession of all the facts could be blamed for unwillingness to condemn the course which had been decided upon .
22 Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow .
23 There is also a degree of ambiguity in Doisneau 's finest pictures which allows them to be interpreted in a variety of ways .
24 For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance .
25 They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away .
26 She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace .
27 Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort .
28 But Labour 's lead over the SNP was 30 percentage points , a far cry from the four-point gap which separated them in January , in the wake of the nationalist victory at the Govan by-election .
29 And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable .
30 The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States .
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