Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 2 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 3 | On the island of Rhum for example , there was talk of introducing a pack of timber wolves when sufficient tree cover to support them was achieved at the end of an extensive planting programme by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 4 | There are any number of things that could go wrong and the only way to discover them is to discuss with the parents exactly what they did . |
| 5 | A complete list of errors and the action required to remedy them is given in the ‘ Reference Guide to LIFESPAN ’ . |
| 6 | If the opportunity to reach them is missed through a preoccupation with building plans and bricks and mortar , then a never-to-be-repeated golden opportunity has been lost . |
| 7 | The way to teach them is to work with the behaviours they show naturally ; like moths , they are for instance attracted by light , but find the fruit on which they feed primarily by smell . |
| 8 | A traffic warden who tried to stop them was knocked to the ground . |
| 9 | Surrounding buildings had to be protected by a wall of water to stop them being engulfed by the flames . |
| 10 | There were not enough , however , to stop them being blitzed in the final by a Warblers side whose quaint victory song underlined a cutting edge . |
| 11 | They went in , Miguel 's arm protectively round her waist to prevent them being separated by the throng of hot , energetic dancers . |
| 12 | Fraser had bought control of Scottish press and publishing interests , such as the Glasgow Herald and Evening Times publishers George Outram , specifically in order to prevent them being bought by the Canadian Roy Thomson . |