Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] them [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US . |
| 2 | Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth . |
| 3 | In 1860 the foreign secretary urged British diplomats not to use unnecessarily " this very costly channel of communication " , and until at least the end of the nineteenth century the ministers in China and Japan , to save money , were still guided , except in serious emergencies , by despatches which took five weeks to reach them via the Suez Canal , or four if they were sent across Canada . |
| 4 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 5 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But after the wars were over the government cleared off the backlog of prisoners by arranging , in the 1718 Act , to pay a subsidy to merchants to take them across the Atlantic , and it also gave the judges the right to impose a sentence of up to 7 years transportation . |
| 8 | Newman told the cab driver to take them to the Brussels Hilton . |
| 9 | In Dewsbury the Council got the magistrates to cooperate in reporting pubs which gave sweets to children under thirteen in order to entice them inside the Wigan Council got the Home Secretary to the local police force . |
| 10 | Some guidance was provided to teachers completing the questionnaire in order to familiarise them with the HMI eight areas of experience and to agree meanings of terms such as ‘ concept ’ and ‘ skill ’ . |