Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before , in the Kirov , what happened was that there were eight or ten singers working for one new production each year , and another 50 sitting in the rehearsals criticizing them . |
| 2 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 3 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 4 | Then we 've got the rig , the mast comes in two parts , the boom , the sail and all the ropes to put them together . |
| 5 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 6 | The clubs helped them recruit supporters . ’ |
| 7 | Professor Sir John Cadogan , chairman of the research council which advised the council on the allocations , said : ‘ We went straight to the heads of the institutions to ask them what were their best bets for boosting the numbers of their top-notch research ratings . |
| 8 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 9 | McShane , one of the driving forces behind the Hunger Marches of the 1930s , and Milligan , a founder member of the British Communist Party , hid in a pub and downed a few pints until a party of workers arrived from the Gorbals to rescue them . |
| 10 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 11 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 12 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of them were , as a matter of fact , but at the time they did n't have the signs to tell them so . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ With my pencil and memorandum book in my hand , I was making studies , as the artists call them , and often moulding my thoughts into verse , with the objects and imagery immediately before my senses . ’ |
| 15 | The Collector had the remaining wooden shutters stripped off the Residency windows and dug into the mud of the ramparts to prevent them melting . |
| 16 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |
| 17 | Only Greenidge and Lloyd kept them afloat as Snow and Underwood bowled really well and the fielders backed them up . |
| 18 | It is expecting a great deal of the courts to ask them to review the operational judgment of a chief of police who indicates that he reasonably believes that his forces are insufficient to prevent serious public disorder or serious damage to property . |
| 19 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 20 | Now hundreds of other unhappy youngsters will be encouraged to demand that the courts grant them a similar divorce , the girl 's solicitor warned yesterday . |
| 21 | So the electrons want to move inwards but can not because the ions hold them back by virtue of their electrostatic attraction . |
| 22 | The large time-of-flight of the ions disperses them according to their energy : highest-energy ions arrive first in the atmosphere and are seen at the lowest latitudes . |
| 23 | Aelian reports that ‘ the Brahmins honour them above all other birds . |
| 24 | The ducks watched them and the leader said , ‘ Come on , mates . |
| 25 | The point was the Germans hated them and wanted to get rid of them . |
| 26 | The Germans feared them |
| 27 | The Germans took them , man and wife , back to their war factories . |
| 28 | The Germans took them away in secret , at night . |
| 29 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 30 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |