Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 2 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 3 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 4 | A decision was taken in principle to require agencies with independent sources of income to transfer them to the central treasury . |
| 5 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 6 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 7 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 8 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 9 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 10 | They had needed the eccentric goalkeeping of Grobbelaar to keep them in the match up to the 111th minute , when Anderton suddenly revealed why so many scouts have been beating a path to Fratton Park . |
| 11 | On Dec. 26 , in an address to the nation , Ukrainian Premier Leonid Kuchma announced that direct payments would be made to the poorest members of society to protect them against the worst effects of the price rises . |
| 12 | They would.become animals , ferocious , feral , fervent in their lust for the sap of life to sustain them through the cold . |
| 13 | Apart from the fact that they have an arrest rate lower than that of some of the older generation , there seems nothing of substance to distinguish them from the founders of the DUP party . |
| 14 | In specifically educational matters , stress was laid on both initial and in-service training of teachers to attune them to the needs of ethnic minority groups and to improve their understanding of a multicultural approach to education . |
| 15 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
| 16 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 17 | The Kamchatkans , a people of eastern Siberia , used to employ the intestines of bears as face-masks to protect them from the glare of the sun ; and they used the sharpened shoulder-blade for cutting grass . |
| 18 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 19 | To give you some idea of the scope of the problem and how multi-faceted it is ; Kermit Weeks , his staff and volunteers are finding and sorting the aircraft pieces , drying out books , covering aircraft and items of every other sort with plastic to protect them from the weather and they are also spraying the collection of spare aircraft parts which filled a 50,000sq ft building . |
| 20 | They come in three sizes complete with tweezers to put them on the fish . |
| 21 | In a statement issued on his behalf yesterday , the Labour leader , said : ‘ I am consulting with colleagues to inform them of the action which I propose to take in the wake of the election defeat . |
| 22 | In the 62nd minute Hughes crossed perfectly for Steel to head them into the lead . |
| 23 | He arranged for Len to have them at the camp . ’ |
| 24 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 25 | Other sources of unease were the unfulfilled aspirations of the minority Shiite community , mostly concentrated in the region south of Baghdad , and the occcasional stirrings of the Communist Party which had gained strength during the Qasem period and become solidly represented in the army until efforts to purge them in the 1970s . |
| 26 | They wore white uniforms in summer to distinguish them from the crowds that might throng their stations . |
| 27 | Field work staff should also be informed of such incidents in order to record them in the client index by actioning the appropriate ‘ flag ’ . |
| 28 | Sometimes it is interesting to play speculative games by projecting historical events and characters forward or backward in time in order to view them in the context of a different time or place . |
| 29 | Thus , the situation should not arise in which the writer of an option contract can not fulfil his obligations by buying securities in the stock market , or that an investor can not buy shares in order to sell them to the option writer . |
| 30 | Moreover , it is important to note that an SRO may modify or waive the core rules ( on a case by case basis ) in order to adapt them to the circumstances of a particular firm . |