Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are encouraging signs that our experiments in communication are starting to yield some useful results and we intend to continue with them in the future . |
| 2 | ‘ When putting on shoes they should be checked to make sure no harmful insect has hidden in them during the night . ’ |
| 3 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 4 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 5 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 6 | The contract includes agreement not only about what new skills and knowledge need to be learned but also about why they are needed , how they will be applied and what is expected to result from them within the school or office . |
| 7 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 8 | And other players will be added to the list after Keegan has spoken to them over the weekend . |
| 9 | Then comes Christmas morning , which explodes joyfully as children rush to the Christmas tree to see what Santa has brought for them during the night . |
| 10 | Having seen last year 's giant-killers Canada get a taste of their own medicine in Pool F , losing to the impressive Koreans ( 16–12 ) , Fiji soon realised that the other seeds were going to struggle to live with them on the rice-paddy pitch . |
| 11 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 12 | We tried to reason with them about the bathroom . |
| 13 | Although an opinion poll last week suggested they could just secure the required number of seats , the tide is expected to turn against them in the course of a three-week campaign . |
| 14 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 15 | We w er we would , we would only need to pay for them at the rate where they lived . |
| 16 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 17 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 18 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 19 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 20 | Thus when carnal and financial imagery in the tale finally merge in the puns taille and taillynge at the very end , it is an emblem of how much deeper the " " bretherhede " " and " " cosynage " " runs that the monk and the merchant imagine exists between them in the form of play , or as a polite figure of speech , and how concrete it is . |
| 21 | You let go of them on the Moon . |
| 22 | Boys who did not , remained in the elementary-school system ( in , as will appear , most cases ) to linger on like dispossessed giants until the system and my grandfather let go of them at the age of fourteen . |
| 23 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 24 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 25 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 26 | They do n't have superhuman powers to help them deal with the superstar image and pressures that they have had to put on them by the media and their fans . |
| 27 | I would rather see people that are going to start work , even if it is only for a year , at the same time where they are working that year that somebody take an interest in what 's going to happen to them at the end of that year . |
| 28 | The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’ |
| 29 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 30 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |