Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 2 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 3 | ‘ Not to play at soldiers with your men , or let them play in the band in the park on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 5 | Some churches are happy to scatter the ashes in the graveyard or bury them according to the family 's wishes . |
| 6 | You have the choice of cleaning the Discs in position or removing them to wash in the sink . |
| 7 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 8 | TYRANT Saddam Hussein must ground his warplanes by this afternoon — or have them blasted from the skies . |
| 9 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 10 | Then Bjorn Again say ‘ thanks ’ in accents that make them sound like the chef out of The Muppet Show , and an Australian voice tells us to hurry up and spend our money on tickets for their next gig in Manchester , which , due to overwhelming demand , is happening next week . |
| 11 | She knew better than to urge them to dress in the fashions Lachlan had learned abroad ; but all the maids were driven frantic sewing silk and linen , gold thread , fur and leather . |
| 12 | It is that position of fundamental weakness and poverty that forces them to apply for the Government 's student loans . |
| 13 | They might accept that they are a privileged group , receiving an assurance that frees them to act in the world without fear and uncertainty . |
| 14 | They moved on , down the cathedral-like space , soaring columns that dwarfed them disappearing into the swirling mist . |
| 15 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 16 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 17 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 18 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 19 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 20 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 21 | If you intend to insert subtitles at a later editing stage ( rather than superimposing them live at the time of shooting ) , you will need to reserve space for these on the tape by shooting overlength material which can subsequently be erased and over-recorded by the insert . |
| 22 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 23 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I saw state policemen drag strikers across the road and make them kneel in the ditch there while they held shotguns in their backs . |
| 25 | Giving the ladies three courtesy shots and allowing them to play off the front tees . |
| 26 | This can be accomplished by wisely releasing the creative potential of individual employees and empowering them to contribute to the goals of the corporation . |
| 27 | So next time you see a decaying barn or cottage , stop the car , take a snap or two , and send them to SAVE with the name and address of the property . |
| 28 | This is that the evaluation of a company 's prospects is ultimately a matter of subjective judgment , and hence what ‘ economists frequently characterize as quantifiable risks are in reality uncertainties of such large and incalculable proportions as to intimidate investors and send them scurrying to the seemingly safer ground of follow-the-leader ’ . |
| 29 | When the public respond to your advertisements or because they have heard that you do personal injury work , it is not enough just to tell them that you do and expect them to come into the office . |
| 30 | Suddenly Isabel was no longer floating , she was falling instead , the sensation so swift and unexpected that she flung up her hands to save herself , and found them clinging to the source of the heat above her . |