Example sentences of "them [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 2 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 3 | It takes them all some time to understand it . |
| 4 | It was a very gentle push , which Yanto did not believe was a serious attempt to stop him , so , as he swayed back against her , he tugged them down another inch . |
| 5 | Then you used to chop them down this way with a cleaver . |
| 6 | Maybe I 'll write them down some day , if I get the chance . |
| 7 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 8 | Parents feel betrayed because their children have caused them so much worry and , later on , children often feel guilty for upsetting their parents so much . |
| 9 | It was as if , because she bore them so much love , the actions of her children had the power to anaesthetize some of her most cherished convictions . |
| 10 | They give them so much protection nowadays . |
| 11 | The Venetians had already gained control of the Montenegrin coast and were developing the trade between the Adriatic ports and their Ottoman-held hinterland which was to bring them so much wealth during the ensuing centuries . |
| 12 | Rhyme , measure , and the turning of verses , which is indispensable and which gives them so much vigour , are analogous to the hidden symmetry , to the equilibrium at once wise and inspired , which governs the meeting or separation of lines and spaces , the echoes of color , etc. ’ poetic painting was Delacroix 's preference , but ‘ David 's picture of Leonidas at Thermopolae is masculine and vigorous prose , I admit ’ . |
| 13 | These were the ones giving them so much grief because of low chip yields ( UX No 412 , 413 ) . |
| 14 | Where will you find in any of them so much Nature , Sweetness , Simplicity and Ease , and such a judicious Choice of new and enlivening Epithets ? |
| 15 | Whether it was chance or the covert workings of the Unbeheld that had brought them together this way , there was surely significance in their reunion . |
| 16 | Why did it hurt to learn that it had been the machinations of others that had brought them together this time ? |
| 17 | As Eve had anticipated , it did win them much more freedom . |
| 18 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 19 | He allowed them just enough milk to supplement the grass they were learning to eat and then pushed them aside , replacing their mouths on the teats with his fingers , squeezing the milk in short squirts into a frothing bowl on the ground below . |
| 20 | Give them just enough food for them to be able to work for their keep . |
| 21 | No wonder , since he has belted three goals past them already this season ! |
| 22 | Murray 's club-mate , Tom McKean , has set his store on the World Indoors but first he has a personal score to settle with his GB team-mate , David Sharpe , who pipped him on Saturday to make it 1-1 between them indoors this winter . |
| 23 | He moved to them early this year . |
| 24 | Du n no enough about Tinkler , what about Sharp as well I 'm all for the youth team comming into the premier league side so why not try them more this year . |
| 25 | He had deliberately laid them aside this time , though he had not been aware of any direct instruction from his heart to do so . |
| 26 | ‘ It would , in my opinion , introduce an element of quite unwarrantable uncertainty into the relations between the taxpayers and the Exchequer if there could be a wholesale opening up of transactions between them whenever any court put a new interpretation upon an existing statutory provision imposing a tax . |
| 27 | ‘ It would , in my opinion , introduce an element of quite unwarrantable uncertainty into the relations between the taxpayers and the Exchequer if there could be a wholesale opening up of transactions between them whenever any court put a new interpretation upon an existing statutory provision imposing a tax . |
| 28 | Do not overtighten the screws — you want to be able to remove them whenever any yarn gets caught in them , to keep them always in a ‘ spinning ’ condition . |
| 29 | Americans ought not to shed one more drop of blood in a continent that has shown them precious little gratitude ( at least outside Germany ) . |
| 30 | Too too noisy and dogs were keeping them up all night . |