Example sentences of "them [conj] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
| 2 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 3 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 4 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 5 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
| 6 | Suppose she 'd managed to acquire personal things of Harry 's , his sunglasses , a pen , even a belt , and wore them or carried them with her , as young people do . |
| 7 | Wallpaper them or cover them with fabric : felt , hessian , sacking , lining fabric or printed cotton . |
| 8 | The Conclusions are circulated very promptly after Cabinet , and up to that time , no minister , certainly not the prime minister , asks to see them or conditions them in any way . ’ |
| 9 | Canvassers for the main parties report ‘ white-hot indifference ’ mingled with ‘ raging boredom ’ as householders slam their doors on them or attack them with peashooters and water pistols from upper windows with a degree of commitment to the democratic process which experienced observers described as ‘ unprecedented ’ and ‘ profoundly conducive to thought ’ . |
| 10 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
| 11 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
| 12 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 13 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 14 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 15 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |
| 16 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 17 | Ruth would retire behind her screen to read them and stored them in one of her drawers . |
| 18 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 19 | In May papal backing was given to her conditions for return ; two legates brought letters urging the younger Despenser to assist the reconciliation of the king and queen , virtually a request for him to abandon the court , but they got no further than Dover where the king interviewed them and threatened them with death if they dared to publish the pope 's letters . |
| 20 | Acknowledge encouragement and assistance from them and support them in return . |
| 21 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 22 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 23 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 24 | The case manager passes the reports to the lawyer who completes them and passes them to a supervisor . |
| 25 | Actually my son 's rather disappointed , he was hoping to farm them and train them into a novelty act . |
| 26 | The best way to deal with them is to unbalance them , trip them and throw them to the ground . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 28 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
| 29 | ‘ Why are you showing me these documents ? ’ he asked when he had finished reading them and passed them to me . |
| 30 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |