Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] them [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog was in the yard and barked a desultory warning of their arrival , but made no attempt to stop them approaching the house . |
| 2 | Earlier , two Labour MPs , Brian Sedgemore and Tony Banks , were escorted from the hotel by police in an attempt to prevent them presenting a petition on behalf of 23 Pergamon Press workers sacked for going on strike . |
| 3 | Booth agreed that there was a mote in the eye of ministerial beholders preventing them reading the timetable properly . |
| 4 | The picture shows them performing a hoop item before physically handicapped class members from St. Joseph 's Hospital , at an annual party for the disabled . |
| 5 | He also claimed that other Uzbek human rights activists had been arrested without warrants to prevent them attending the conference . |
| 6 | Forty male Wistar rats , caged in groups of five , were maintained on the test diets for 18 months and were housed on refined cat litter to prevent them eating the bedding . |
| 7 | In addition to which , Kenamun had taken care to keep them waiting an hour in an unventilated antechamber before seeing them . |
| 8 | At an FA inquiry in February , City pleaded that , because of a tram strike on Christmas Day , the crowd arrived late for the match and there were no police to stop them rushing the ground . |
| 9 | Now the Secretary of State is telling them that he will cut their budgets next year to stop them increasing the number of educational opportunities and social workers . |
| 10 | Havant 's 32–3 demolition of Sidcup left them needing a victory at home over Sudbury on April 25 to leapfrog Basingstoke and gain promotion from League Four South . |
| 11 | However , in Lego U.K. Ltd. v Lego M. Lemelstrich Ltd. [ 1983 ] , the Lego company , which makes children 's construction kits comprising coloured plastic bricks , was granted an injunction against the manufacturers of coloured plastic irrigation material preventing them using the name " Lego " as part of the description of the material . |