Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] they [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to continue to provide them with that service . |
| 2 | Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ? |
| 3 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 4 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 5 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 6 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 7 | Generally middle-aged , they may even have children who are working for the left-wing opposition , but their own closed environment has protected them from any understanding of the reality of their country . |
| 8 | If you want to settle them at this meeting . |
| 9 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 10 | He is amazed by the complex destiny which has put them before each other like this , two solid independent creatures face to face , two selves , with a common background and a common source of reference in Goethe 's Faust . |
| 11 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |
| 12 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 13 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 14 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 15 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 16 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today . |
| 17 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today |
| 18 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 19 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 20 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 21 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
| 22 | There is little the High Elves can do to stop them at this point . |
| 23 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 24 | Er , they reckon they grow two to three foot a year they 're the fast grow ones , once they get a hold , they start growing and they shoot up each week and when they start shooting up , that 's when , you 've got to keep them watered , and you 've got to feed them with that plant stuff do you know what I mean ? |
| 25 | And you 've got to put them in that framework … |
| 26 | The Elves hid themselves in caves , woods and mountainsides and prayed to their gods that they would not be found , and that a hero would emerge to deliver them from this evil . |
| 27 | But roasting them , I would n't like to get them with any sort of burnt taste . |
| 28 | ‘ I brought them over yesterday and George let me have a couple of boxes for the night but I do n't want to leave them over another night if I can help it . |
| 29 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 30 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |