Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the advantage from the point of view of the courts of largely relieving them of the necessity to enter into the merits of business judgment , a matter to which we will return below . |
| 2 | For though princes might now punish delinquent vassals or officials ( see pp. 360 , 286 ) , there was solid political sense in not subjecting them to the same penalties as lesser men . |
| 3 | Nor will the wholesaler commit any offence in supplying the goods thus labelled to the retailer , nor the retailer in similarly supplying them to the consumer . |
| 4 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 5 | However , he refrained on this occasion from explicitly linking them to the situation around Afghanistan . |
| 6 | Given then that all public sector organizations will keep meticulous records of debtors , it is hard to see that much effort is saved by not incorporating them in the double entry . |
| 7 | In a day-long hearing students who oppose the plan say academics broke college rules by not consulting them about the plan . |
| 8 | He suggested inducing seizures in rats by repeatedly dosing them with the drug lignocaine , in small amounts that do not at first induce seizures . |
| 9 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |
| 10 | Allan argues that these class differences are due to very different ways of organizing friendship ( p. 49 ) : ‘ Briefly , whereas the working-class respondents tended to restrict interaction with their friends ( and with their other sociable companions ) to particular social contexts , the middle class respondents developed their friendships by explicitly removing them from the constraints imposed by specific settings . ’ |