Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those that had children struggled desperately to keep them within the state school system and also to see the frequent failures of others to succeed in this as being somehow a rather nasty disease , with compassion and sorrow the appropriate response , rather than the fierce bell-like anger they would all have produced reflexively only ten years before . |
| 2 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 3 | To please him , she travelled , learnt languages , read all the guide books to the cities he insisted they visit , became a sexual virtuoso , developed opinions on the classics and on contemporary literature , and learnt never to voice them at the dinner table unless asked . |
| 4 | A mother does her level best to warn them about the ever present dangers |
| 5 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 6 | A spokesman said detectives hoped that if the suspects were not the terrorists they — or someone who recognised them — would come forward to eliminate them from the inquiry . |
| 7 | When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses . |
| 8 | We have yet to integrate them one with another , and we have yet to relate them to the practical demands of learning and teaching foreign languages . |