Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] them [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Volleyball : Chelmsford Partners women 's volleyball side are banking on a wealth of experience to give them the edge this Sunday in their first English Volleyball Association Cup Final.The team has an average age of nearly 34 , but they still fancy their chances of defeating a younger Sheffield Wednesday at Riverside ( start 1.30 pm ) . |
2 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
3 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
4 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
5 | If he saw those for himself , I am sure that he would agree that they are of low quality , given the volume of traffic using them every day . |
6 | Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy . |
7 | This kind of jiggery-pokery does them a disservice . |
8 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
9 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
10 | Their standards of excellence won them the award for best staff restaurant , and they finished in joint second place overall out of all the shops , cafes , hotels , restaurants and canteens in the district . |
11 | The failure of diplomacy to win them a homeland has left them hoping that Israeli retaliation against Iraq will split Syria and Egypt from the anti-Iraq alliance and open a new Arab-Israeli conflict . |
12 | But the men from the Midlands had enjoyed themselves so well , they decided the engraved glass trophy should stay in Scotland to give them the excuse to come back and play for it again ! |
13 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
14 | With this business of embargo , Liz , I 'll agree with that but the , the off the record , one wants to get the local people very well and you do develop this , this trust , and if you can in fact give them a lot of scope that you know what to use . |
15 | They might be short of one or two quality players , but in such a yo-yo season Villa have as good a chance as any , particularly if Dalian Atkinson returns from injury to give them the sort of finishing power they lacked last night . |
16 | The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work . |
17 | The Swindon win over Bournemouth found them the performance of the week award . |
18 | A fly on the dressing room wall suggests Alex Miller was furious with his players ' performance but the trip to Glasgow gives them a chance to atone . |
19 | You might decide to offer Work Experience to pupils to give them a taste of working life while they are still at school , or you might offer a teacher a secondment to industry . |
20 | The level of tuition fees charged to students gives them the right to expect a professional standard of service , particularly with regard to test-marking ; the Education Service is judged , to a considerable extent , by that criterion . |
21 | With a U-form structure , in which the functional basis of decomposition is preserved all the way up the hierarchy , more of top management 's time is devoted to these operational matters , whose pressing need for resolution gives them an urgency not usually attached to issues of a more long-run , strategic kind . |
22 | The group that Portes subsumes under the heading of a dominant class are internally divided , but have enough in common for Portes to call them a class . |
23 | Coding can be done by interviewers to give them a break and to sustain their interest , but is more usually done by special staff . |
24 | The vouchers could be cashed by employers offering them a job contract for a minimum of two years . |
25 | The travellers said that as gypsies the council was obliged by law to give them a camp site . |