Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund .
32 This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube .
33 His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany .
34 Then begin the real gaieties of Harrogate , then the money flies , and what the landlords of those two establishments take in six weeks keeps them during the rest of the year . ’
35 Havant take over the daunting task of challenging for the European Cup in Amsterdam , with Hounslow moving to the south of Holland to compete at Vught where a favourable draw puts them among the favourites to reach Monday 's final .
36 We have sent out more than 1 million letters to individual customers to advise them of the change that we are making and the benefits inquiry line has provided back-up information for those who have received such letters .
37 They also had magnifying glasses to help them with the extraordinarily fine detail which they worked into the seal images : some lenses were found in a Middle Minoan tomb at Knossos .
38 No such fears limited them in the 1880s and 1890s .
39 The part of the Wallowa Valley desired by the Nez Perce in 1873 , and the completely contradictory area allocated them by the Indian Bureau .
40 After a while a fallen log helped them across the ditch .
41 If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit .
42 A fast trip through central London whisked them past the main tourist attractions and out to the suburbs to the International Training College where they were to stay .
43 Warwickshire unsurprisingly lost to Notts in their first four-day game but Smith 's five first-innings wickets kept them in the game until the final day .
44 A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover .
45 erm I have two children and I have found that it was quite a full-time job persuading them of the virtue of certain old-fashioned ways of going about things .
46 Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings .
47 Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings .
48 The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time .
49 Parapsychologists have always complained that they did n't get enough funding , Randi says , so this was an ideal opportunity to put them to the test .
50 The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government .
51 Although there is much in these three books to put them in the category of Ruritanian adventure , Scott may be a stronger influence .
52 The high viscosity of these solutions keeps them in the eye longer , while the polymer itself is intended to mimic the ocular mucins ( glycoproteins ) , a deficiency of which is often the cause of dry eye symptoms , and promote tear film stability .
53 Those states with the available resources , space and population at their disposal will sooner or later attempt to develop them to the point which enables them — to use the kind of phrase often employed publicly in this context — to ‘ play a part in world balance ’ Or ‘ to take a seat in world councils ’ .
54 A white limousine took them to the church .
55 Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars .
56 To their surprise , a rather familiar looking vehicle passed them on the road .
57 Is this the one where , see a topless girl wobble them in the streets
58 CHAIR HIRE The scheme involves disabled drivers leaving their cars at a site near the town centre and then hiring an electric wheelchair to take them around the shops .
59 Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom .
60 Polgar rations their appearances in a natural wish to protect them from the media .
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