Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 2 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 3 | Their personal responsibility for decision-making seemed to elevate them above the social struggle , to make them neutral arbiters between the competing interests of nobles , townsmen , and peasants . |
| 4 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 5 | Officials usually knew who they were , though they could not obtain the evidence needed to convict them in the courts . |
| 6 | She wanted to stay awake to listen for the taxi coming to take them to the airport . |
| 7 | The proper case is one where the administrator reasonably requires to see the documents to carry out his functions and the production does not impose an unnecessary and unreasonable burden on the person required to produce them in the light of the administrator 's requirements . |
| 8 | Mills ( 1980 ) argues that both initial and in-service teacher education fails to prepare them for the task . |
| 9 | You could ask them till kingdom come to put them on the bus , but they never do … . ’ |
| 10 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 11 | When the first Vietnamese arrived in 1975 after the fall of Saigon , the federal government tried to spread them around the country . |
| 12 | They all looked blowsy , lipsticky and desperate , locked in a fight with a life set to trample them into the barroom floor , a series of no-account boyfriends too free with their fists and guns , and an incipient obesity that would limit their later careers to shrill mother roles . |
| 13 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 14 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 15 | For reasons linked to the physical strength needed to operate them at the beginning , spinning mules were operated by men . |
| 16 | Maxim had finished his crab and was pushing bits of salad around his plate trying to identify them in the dimness and listening with half-turned head to a tenor saxophonist who had joined the guitar to swap phrases of the Beale Street Blues . |
| 17 | WITH a single goal to score to put them into the next round of the European Cup , only Scots south of the border doubted Leeds United 's ability to conclude the issue in their favour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The effect of this has been held to be that , even if the company omits to put them on the register they become members and holders of the number of shares stated . |
| 20 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |