Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 2 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 4 | For a new act , I would have to pitch them at the right venue for their type of music . |
| 5 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 6 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 7 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 8 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 9 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 11 | It is not envisaged that we would have to use them for the offshore industry , but the provisions provide a safety net . |
| 12 | We shall often have to invoke them in the following chapters , though we shall rely all we can on originals . |
| 13 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 14 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
| 15 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 16 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |