Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The police were called to resolve the dispute , and although Mr Levy did not make a formal complaint he contacted Arsenal Football Club to inform them of the incident .
2 Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September .
3 ‘ I telephoned the coastguard and port authority on Friday night to inform them of the event , start times and which VHF frequency we would be using .
4 If the newcomers have fairly extreme opinions , some towards the Right and some towards the Left , it will be more difficult for the select committee atmosphere to mould them into a team upholding the legislature as opposed to the government of the day .
5 Samuel begged the company 's indulgence as chairman elect to entertain them with a short piece in Sir Thomas 's absence .
6 Newman told the cab driver to take them to the Brussels Hilton .
7 Upon return to their base the Captain disappears to the Ops Room to brief them about the incident , whilst his team once again prepare the equipment .
8 SCIENTISTS on Orkney will today attempt to use sexual attraction to lead six male sperm whales to freedom by playing them female whale song to tempt them into the open sea .
9 As she raised her little hammer to tap on the table , she wondered suddenly why the Advent had actually sent a reporter — they usually depended on the publicity secretary to supply them with a report .
10 But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it .
11 With revenues plummeting , airlines clamoured for government support to help them through the bad times .
12 Redcar MP Mo Mowlam says she is concerned about possible health risks associated with the closure of public lavatories on the seafront and hopes to persuade Langbaurgh Council to re-open them for the summer .
13 If you want to keep the existing pipes ( perhaps using a tap adaptor ) , use a bath/basin spanner to disconnect them at the top .
14 Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it .
15 Many artillery men wear a leather jerkin to protect them from the discharge .
16 In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement .
17 It is the responsibility of all candidates to find out their results and of unsuccessful candidates to request their course director or senior course tutor to provide them with a written record of the decision which the Board of Examiners has taken about their progress .
18 a Services Division to support them for a transitional period
19 And not even an air raid warning to send them into the cellars .
20 He stalked off to find the airport bus to take them to the SNCF railway station at Roissy , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him as best he could .
21 One school is building an artifical otter holt to provide them with a ready made home .
22 They waited in her suite at the Richemond for the hire car to take them to the airport .
23 Apart from conventional protests , Greenpeace mountaineers scaled the twin 350-foot towers of a nearby power station to straddle them with a giant banner .
24 They made their way down Friday Street , Old Fish Street and into the Vintry , and hired a wherry at Oueenshithe Wharf to take them along the choppy river to the-Savoy Palace .
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