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Example sentences of "them [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ More to follow ’ : I phoned them right a way ( and they agreed to come ) You must write it a gain ( and this time , get it right )
2	We did get them better a lot of them at any rate .
3	Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again .
4	He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work .
5	Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week .
6	Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself .
7	Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them .
8	Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them .
9	But most of us experience periods of low self-esteem at different times and some — particularly If they have been unhappy in their early life — seem to be permanently stuck with such a poor impression of themselves and their own worth that ‘ self-esteem ’ is to them just a word which applies to other people more fortunate than themselves .
10	When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite .
11	As opposed to giving them possibly a ball bearing .
12	The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US .
13	In the meantime they visit them once a fortnight .
14	to come in and blitz the place from top too bottom and if we just have them once a fortnight , the in between weekend I can whiz round ,
15	‘ We take them once a year to a council rubbish dump .
16	Mug up on a few details : whether they called the masters ‘ beaks ’ or ‘ dons ’ ; whether sweets were referred to as ‘ tuck ’ or ‘ sock ’ ; where you would have slept , in a ‘ house ’ or ‘ dorm ’ ; what barmy school game was played on them once a year .
17	Diana and Mary are both married , and we visit them once a year .
18	The woman in the shop 's pretty friendly and she tells me what to do with the plants — you know , water them once a week , or keep them out of draughts and that .
19	I know a guy who bowls at the Bromley Bowling Club in exactly and he told me that they have professional green keepers who look after lots of different greens and they come into them once a week or whatever .
20	We only have them once a week
21	Nothing particular follows from the fact that he visits them once a month , except perhaps we infer that he has a close relationship with them .
22	I talk to them once a month normally , but more frequently since the war began .
23	Eva said it had taken them nearly a month to get booked up .
24	She kissed the balding patch on the back of his head as she clambered off the bed and went to the fridge to pour them both a drink .
25	Tammuz poured them both a drink , handing one to Zambia as he sat down .
26	Lorton led the way into the kitchen and poured them both a drink .
27	In the theatre coffee-bar he brought them both a drink , then settled himself comfortably opposite her .
28	The shock of the assault carried them both a yard or two back along the passageway .
29	Rugby Club , pay them both a tenner
30	He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune .