Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] them [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 | However , I will seek to set them in the wider context of the Government 's commitment and programme for the computerisation of general practice . |
| 8 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 9 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | — 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 . |
| 19 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 22 | They decided to employ a similar philosophy to German Bands like Can and Faust , refusing to use them as a mere influence , more an entire concept . |
| 23 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 24 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 25 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 26 | Their personal responsibility for decision-making seemed to elevate them above the social struggle , to make them neutral arbiters between the competing interests of nobles , townsmen , and peasants . |
| 27 | The campaign against scroungers began in the mid-seventies when the Labour government inaugurated the recession with public spending cuts and implicated the poor in the nation 's plight by refusing to immunise them against the economic squeeze . |
| 28 | Since the good faith and honesty of the protesters were admitted by all concerned , this seemed to bring them within the statutory defence regardless of whether their beliefs were reasonable or whether they were universally held . |
| 29 | And s and begin to drive them with a consolidated plan . |
| 30 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |