Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] them in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Americans had not entirely despaired of better relations with Nasser , they looked to the US 6th Fleet to remind possible trouble-makers of the power which the United States could immediately bring to bear against them in a crisis . |
| 2 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 3 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 4 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 5 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
| 6 | Come to us , God of justice , that we may hear the cries of the dispossessed in every land , calling us , like Jesus the healer , to walk with them in the search for justice and mercy . |
| 7 | His pedipalps are brightly coloured and patterned and as soon as he sights a female , he begins to signal with them in a kind of manic semaphore . |
| 8 | There are encouraging signs that our experiments in communication are starting to yield some useful results and we intend to continue with them in the future . |
| 9 | In modern terms , he evaluated who was to be evangelised and was willing to take responsibility to go to them in the work of evangelism . |
| 10 | Although an opinion poll last week suggested they could just secure the required number of seats , the tide is expected to turn against them in the course of a three-week campaign . |
| 11 | Since such rules can be optionally applied to the same basic sentence structures , they provide a linguistic basis for the notion of * In this , as in subsequent chapters , we number examples and extracts only where we need to refer to them in the text . |
| 12 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 13 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 14 | — Department store bosses trying to try on clothes in their fiddly little changing rooms ( you can always tell people who 've been clothes shopping they 're the ones with the bruised elbows ) ; — Town planners and architects who think steps are an interesting feature trying to get up them in a wheelchair , with a pram , or just with creaky old legs ; — Hospital consultants who make ten appointments for the same time waiting in out-patients , especially if it 's the day when there 's a dotty old lady , a whining child and an old man who coughs and spits all in the same little section ; — Weird fashion experts wearing their crazier outfits in Darlington on a rainy Monday . |
| 15 | Will my hon. Friend continue not only to listen to the representations , but to act on them in every way possible ? |