Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [to-vb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of trying to help them on the voyage , Margery was left alone at Dover . |
| 2 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 3 | Northampton captain Lamb was yesterday banned for two matches by his club and fined heavily — not for his comments , but for failing to clear them with the county . |
| 4 | Parent : ‘ He does n't play with them for more than 5 minutes before wanting to throw them at the wall . ’ |
| 5 | Manager Charlton will monitor the progress and fitness of his three injured stars before deciding to add them to the panel at a later date . |
| 6 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 7 | The Disclosure Directive also allows competent authorities to exempt EC-listed companies from the requirement to notify the public if the disclosure would be contrary to the public interest or seriously detrimental to the company concerned ( provided that the public would not be misled ) ; this does not , however , exempt a person acquiring voting rights from having to disclose them to the company if a relevant threshold is reached . |
| 8 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 9 | He apologised for trying to blame them over the Tories ' economic blunders . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 12 | If you have lost your glasses , it may be that you upset your friends by failing to recognize them in the street . |
| 13 | Also , by failing to protect them from the sun , you may cause problems for your kids later . |