Example sentences of "them [adv] that they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is how to link them so that they become like sentences in a play or poem . |
| 2 | we 're prepared to look at the the client reports and change them so that they become as good as we , we can get them . |
| 3 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |
| 4 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 5 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 6 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 7 | It was his second gin , and they poured them so that they tasted like a horse 's kick . |
| 8 | He picked up a second kitten , dangled one from each hand , swung them so that they hit each other . |
| 9 | This will not necessarily stop the Not-OK feelings but it at least contains them so that they do n't damage the transaction . |
| 10 | I hope that coaches in this country , when they are coaching youngsters , will coach them so that they do not have those kinds of weaknesses . |
| 11 | The tiles have grooves and ridges on them so that they do not fall out . |
| 12 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |