Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] them [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 2 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 3 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 4 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 5 | In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network . |
| 6 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 7 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 8 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 9 | Kendall has doggedly maintained that , despite Everton 's dreadful run which has dragged them towards the bottom of the Premier League , there is nothing intrinsically wrong with his side . |
| 10 | Shallow wells generally contain much water that has reached them from the surface , and this may bring varying amounts of contamination . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 12 | The fact that so many insurance products contain a substantial savings element has brought them within the scope of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a brilliant performance , ’ enthused Toby Mullins , the ladies ' coach who has led them to the championship in his first season in charge . |
| 14 | Sedgefield Racers make the long trip to Chiltern tonight looking to maintain an end of season run that has taken them to the fringes of the play-off chase . |
| 15 | Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches . |
| 16 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 17 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
| 18 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 19 | This makes sense when taken together with IBM Europe 's statement that it has excess manufacturing capacity : rather than close the plants straight away , it has thrown them to the market — they will get business from IBM but only as long as they can provide products at the going market rate . |
| 20 | The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle . |
| 21 | 1992 has left them on the edge of relegation and out of the cup . |
| 22 | ‘ However , in the economic revolution which has overtaken them with the collapse of the Soviet Union I can see problems looming for them in future . |
| 23 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 24 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 25 | Their vestigial hands grope around them as their blind , closed-eyed faces press forwards against a thin film of ectoplasm which seems to shield them from the outside . |
| 26 | The supposedly technical and neutral nature of the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy which they employ appears to absolve them from the charge that they are making ideological claims about cultural difference . |
| 27 | Instead of impressing its customers with the ease and convenience of , say , Microsoft 's ‘ Word ’ word-processing program , the company hopes to wow them with the way that ‘ Word ’ can incorporate charts or query a remote database for the latest sales figures . |
| 28 | It is certainly helped by the fact that the spadefoot toad 's eggs are black , covered by a pigment called melanin which helps protect them from the sun 's rays ( the same pigment is responsible for tanning in human beings ) . |
| 29 | Many believe that playing standards will improve only when more young players are attracted to rugby , which means getting them into the clubs at youth level . |
| 30 | ‘ Where a man , having the animus furandi ( see ante , para. 1469 ) , obtains possession of goods by frightening the owner , as by threatening him with temporary imprisonment unless he delivers up his goods , and the owner does deliver them under the influence of the fear inspired by his threat , this is considered such a taking ( although there is a delivery in fact ) as to constitute larceny : Reg. v. Lovell ( 1881 ) 8 Q.B.D. 185 . |