Example sentences of "them and [vb base] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ Amongst Women ’ the women finally win through , break the father despite his best efforts to bully them and break their spirits . |
| 2 | He is not concerned like Western man with mechanistic explanations of how things happen ; he is concerned with why afflictions befall him , how to forestall them and remove their menace … . |
| 3 | Change management is principally concerned with people — their attitudes and skill levels , and how to communicate with them and overcome their resistance . |
| 4 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 5 | And the people who run the shop are runners themselves and you can sort of go to them and ask their advice on all sorts of things |
| 6 | This is all of a piece with the way some men assume they may stare at women , stand close to them and invade their physical space by touching . |
| 7 | On November 24 , 1990 , Prakesh , Dharmowtee and Sonia ( below , l to r ) headed a march of over 500 people through Handsworth , Birmingham to demand that the Home Office remove the deportation orders against them and review their cases . |
| 8 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 9 | The first is a moral one , that if chimpanzees are really like man they may have the same capacity to understand what is happening to them and imagine their futures , which would make laboratory studies , especially physiological interventions , unacceptable . |
| 10 | ‘ And I know what they say about people who invite other people out to dinner and then spend the whole time trying to depress them and ruin their lives . ’ |
| 11 | For village women in Punjab , Bengal or Gujerat , there is usually only one source of comfort in their new life — the presence of other women — to love them , caress them , sing songs with them and soothe their sorrows . |
| 12 | Phenolic precursors of the quinones that link amino-acid chains to form sclerotin are widely distributed , though some Apterygotes lack them and harden their cuticles by disulphide linkages ( Krishnan , 1969 ) . |
| 13 | Take out all ye seeds , then weight them and take their weight in sugar . |
| 14 | ( d ) Action on receipt of reply Always inform clients of result of search ; if any material entry , confer with them and take their instructions before exchanging contracts . |
| 15 | Break themself from all those things that hold them and that captivate them and hold their interest . |
| 16 | With Labour now likely to bury their tax madness in their charge to the right , the Tories have to stay well ahead of them and consolidate their position as the party committed to cutting public waste and bringing down tax rates . |
| 17 | With the rebuff from Moore , he and Harris had been forced to split west and north London between them and do their own distribution . |
| 18 | If you then cross-examine them and attack their credibility your shield goes in and then after that your previous good character , but only in the context of you being cross-examined by the prosecution . |
| 19 | Used to if the wire and that you 'd try and get a hold of them and clip their wings to stop the flying out . |
| 20 | To look at them and see their incomprehension does surely move us to sadness ; for we aspire to Thoreau 's Great City of the West , but these men are blind . |
| 21 | We want others to look to them and see their way of survival . |
| 22 | So the mole was permitted to go home with them and share their food and fire . |
| 23 | Others , who are just as willing , have great difficulties in trying to understand them and meet their needs without appearing to intrude , or deprive them of their independence . |
| 24 | They protect them and improve their ability to cause damage . |
| 25 | In a letter to Survival , he states that : " We will ask the local people to participate in the project , and we will teach them and upgrade their lives . |
| 26 | I would open the door to them and check their names off in the appointment book , often unable to converse because of the language barrier . |
| 27 | Although their families still mourn their loss , they have tried to put their grief behind them and rebuild their lives . |
| 28 | So Lloyd George as the story goes , advised them to go there with their father and take some crowbars with them , and not to break down the gate , to break down the wall , and take their minister with them and bury their father . |
| 29 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 30 | I have also had to tell others they are unlikely to get in and then try to explain the politics of the department to them and watch their dismay when they realize that , perhaps regardless of merit , they do not fit in . |