Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 2 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 3 | It may be possible to find such books in your office , or to arrange to borrow them from a public library . |
| 4 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 5 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 6 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 7 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 8 | However , I will seek to set them in the wider context of the Government 's commitment and programme for the computerisation of general practice . |
| 9 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 10 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 11 | They can not have teachers ready to respond to the rapidly changing social milieu ( the educational needs context ) which requires an extended approach to professionality , and at the same time expect to manage them in a modified bureaucracy which is predicated upon a restricted view . |
| 12 | ‘ It has provided them with a stronger sense of purpose and mission , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Their desperate League form this season has consigned them to a similar predicament , while Chelsea are on the crest of a wave . |
| 14 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 15 | Whatever the division among teachers about aspects of the new curriculum , most found that it has brought them into a closer relationship with the school library : |
| 16 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 17 | We are not advocates of the ‘ prosperity gospel ’ , but we do recognise that the people God definitely seems to entrust with finances are those whom he can trust to hold them with an open hand . |
| 18 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 19 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 20 | Their defeat of Grange ‘ D ’ has put them in an unassailable position and they will return to division two after a season 's absence . |
| 21 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 22 | This amazing country has thrown them into a new and unique relationship . |
| 23 | But then City , who have not won a League match at Old Trafford since condemning United to relegation in 1973 , reverted to the sort of form that has left them without an away win since November . |
| 24 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 25 | As described earlier , they include those who lack other supportive relationships , or whose previous relationship with the deceased has left them with an overwhelming sense of guilt , leading to self-punitive grief . |
| 26 | This is particularly important if a ‘ traditional ’ training has kept them to a limited understanding and repertoire . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 28 | — JON Gittens , a key figure in Middlesbrough clinching a place in the new Premier League next season , wants to join them on a permanent basis from Southampton . |
| 29 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 30 | Hundred thousand pounds you do not have to submit an inland revenue account , therefore you do n't need to tell them about the three hundred thousand pounds and therefore you wo n't pay inheritance tax . |