Example sentences of "them and [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would also appear that in some areas the rougher element ganged up against Boy Scout troops in the early years of the movement , throwing stones at them and mocking their uniform of floppy hats and silly short pants . |
| 2 | In ‘ Amongst Women ’ the women finally win through , break the father despite his best efforts to bully them and break their spirits . |
| 3 | 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 … . |
| 4 | Change management is principally concerned with people — their attitudes and skill levels , and how to communicate with them and overcome their resistance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | It existed to ‘ speak for artists and art organisations , to offer them advice , to argue for them and to champion their interests in the media and to government whenever and wherever the need may arise ’ . |
| 8 | Such " regular casuals " can remain " regular casuals " only if they are prepared to accept the schedules set for them and to take their free days when there are no events and their holidays during the off-season . |
| 9 | With our Masai translator and guide we lived with them and accepted their hospitality which was our biggest witness to them . |
| 10 | Gradually these courts decayed , partly owing to the jealousy of the Common Law Courts , which interfered with them and extended their own jurisdiction . |
| 11 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gandhi himself claimed that his purpose in fasting was to take upon himself the burden of the workers ; he was identifying himself with them and sharing their despair , frustration and suffering . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Keeping the ‘ common people ’ of Romania down by always increasing the demands put upon them and diminishing their rewards was good policy as well as economically necessary if his ever-more ambitious plans were to be accomplished . |
| 17 | Now here 's a gang of Brits following them and picking their money up . |
| 18 | Approaching Wallowa Lake , he found the Nez Perce warriors mounted on an impregnable high bluff , and reported : ‘ Joseph could have fallen upon the settlers in detail , killing them and destroying their property … |
| 19 | The igloo idea was Leo 's : ‘ It was designed to put the trainees ’ skills to the test while at the same time motivating them and holding their interest . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Examples do not define , they illustrate ; and they are illustrative only to those who are capable of grasping the general concept that underlies them and represents their " species-identity " . |
| 22 | It was this that led testators to value them and to confirm their wills in trust form . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The Shah could then have denounced them and ordered their arrest and execution . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | A serjeant-at-arms wearing the royal livery stopped them and asked their business before allowing them through . |
| 28 | Take out all ye seeds , then weight them and take their weight in sugar . |
| 29 | ( 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 . |
| 30 | Break themself from all those things that hold them and that captivate them and hold their interest . |