Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] them [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But schools often under-use the talents and energies of their teachers , or fail to develop them in any consistent and systematic way . |
| 2 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 3 | Fifteen years ago the Victoria and Albert Museum reclassified many of its nineteenth-century study photographs as art photographs and started treating them with much more respect . |
| 4 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 5 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 6 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
| 7 | Barbados ca n't survive on the sugar market alone , but try convincing them of that . |