Example sentences of "[prep] them and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told enough boring stories about them and ended each office day with : ‘ I must go or my children will be afraid I 've got lost . ’ |
| 2 | Banks thus compete against each other for them and negotiate individual terms with the firm to suit the firm 's particular requirements . |
| 3 | As Shneidman makes it clear : ‘ While different components of the educational process aim at the development of different qualities and values , it is impossible to draw a clear distinction between them and to separate physical education from other segments of communist upbringing ’ ( 1979 , p.6 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ However , these animals are here and we must look after them and make full use of them to bring the attention of people in Northern Ireland to the plight of thousands of other , much less fortunate , chimpanzees . ’ |
| 5 | This brings in the other theme of how money can corrupt which is obviously shown by the ways in which Pip 's attitude changes towards those around him by becoming condescending towards them and showing little respect and compassion . |
| 6 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 7 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 8 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 9 | THE boyfriend of the Teesside woman shot during a visit to the United States has said the couple want to put the incident behind them and lead normal lives . |
| 10 | In a speech to Hungary 's National Assembly , Yeltsin expressed the hope that the two countries could put their mutual bitter past behind them and relaunch bilateral relations on a fresh sheet . |
| 11 | Calvert favoured large investors who would bring indentured servants with them and granted large manors to these planters . |
| 12 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 13 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 14 | For larger tours , bands need a tour accountant to travel with them and record all transactions as they are made . |
| 15 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 16 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 17 | The good adviser will value schools ' own programmes , and be willing to participate in them and provide additional help , but he will also try to stimulate other opportunities of cooperation between schools , wide-ranging discussion in courses and occasional meetings , and curriculum development planning meetings at teachers ' centres and colleges and departments of education . |
| 18 | How different they were ( we who worked in primary schools thought ) from the secondary schools described in the Newsom Report of 1963 in which ‘ children sat through lessons with information and exhortation washing over them and leaving little deposit ’ . |
| 19 | The progress during the first year of recovery will vary from one person to another but for most people this first year in any Fellowship is spent mainly in compliance : doing what is suggested by people more experienced in the Anonymous Fellowships , attending meetings , contributing to them and giving practical service in them , progressively working the 12 Steps with the guidance of a sponsor and generally learning to use the various suggested techniques of staying away from one 's primary addictive substance or behaviour and learning to deal with stressful situations in a more appropriate manner than previously . |
| 20 | I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards . |
| 21 | Complicated tasks face social service departments in trying to meet the claims for service made on them and to offer constructive assistance within statutory responsibilities and resource constraints . |
| 22 | They would tend to withdraw from their surroundings , showing little interest in those around them and making few demands upon them . |