Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 2 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 3 | They really are a very vibrant organization , and er , I think we really would wish them well , and , and very pleasing to see them adapting to the new circumstances . |
| 4 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 5 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 6 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 7 | There was a great yearning among lay people to understand in terms of their own vernacular this inner experience of the faith , which , through the institutional influence of the Church , formally governed the structure of their lives , although their education may not have been such as to enable them to cope with the official language of the Church or highly intellectual theological exposition . |
| 8 | Some of the details are nicely done such as the antiquated ceramic water bottle offered by the porter to enable them to cope with the freezing bedrooms . |
| 9 | THE Hampshire Playing Fields Association have just launched a £250,000 public appeal to enable them to respond to the ever-increasing demands for support of sport and recreational projects throughout the county . |
| 10 | They want our tied estate and ‘ English heritage ’ beers to enable them to compete with the five major national tied estate brewers . |
| 11 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 12 | The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy . |
| 13 | 1985 ) expectation of seeing appropriate training and support being available to all teachers to enable them to cater for the linguistic needs of pupils in a linguistically diverse Britain ( para. 2.17 ) still needs serious consideration . |
| 14 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 15 | There may be some delays , because we have to process them according to the normal procedures , but there will not be any undue delays . |
| 16 | To visit them continue to the main road and immediately turn to your right through the gates . |
| 17 | Courses were necessary for mainstream teachers , including headteachers , to help them cater for the multilingual population of their schools , and Heads of Modern Languages , who were often given responsibilities for South Asian languages despite the current limitations of their professional competence to foreign European languages , were a prime target for reorientation courses . |
| 18 | When world oil prices plunged in the 1980s , their leaders did little to help them adjust to the inevitable decline in living standards . |
| 19 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 20 | Shipmasters long ago found that their societies are never likely to help them owing to the inevitable scattering of members and the indifference which distance begets . |
| 21 | In order to reinforce the Cartagena Declaration , Bush stated that he would ask the US Congress to sanction increased aid to the three Andean countries for the period 1991-94 , to help them deal with the social and economic problems resulting from drug eradication programmes . |
| 22 | FOUR North Wales schoolgirls are seeking sponsorship to help them get to the British ski championships . |
| 23 | To help them get in the laughing mood . ’ |
| 24 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 26 | So we find , by the end of the fourteenth century , that persons are directing petitions to the Chancellor , claiming that they have at least a moral right to the benefit of these uses , and begging him to give them help against the legal owner who is setting up his Common Law rights against them . |
| 27 | These provisions gave rise to uncertainty largely because the courts showed a marked reluctance to interpret them according to the ordinary meaning of such words as ‘ void , and they also gave rise to injustice because under the Common Law an infant could still sue an adult upon a contract unenforceable against himself and incapable of ratification by him . |
| 28 | Once into the trees , they lost sight of the sun and the sky and had to rely on the compass to keep them heading in the right direction . |
| 29 | Both the projector and the turntable were powered by the same motor to ensure they ran at the same speed . |
| 30 | But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day . |