Example sentences of "[vb past] them [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her letter also asked them to reimburse the clamping fee , postage costs and compensation for her ‘ time and distress ’ . |
| 2 | His persuasion , combined with recurring unemployed demonstrations , moved them to introduce the Unemployed Workmen Act 1905 . |
| 3 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 4 | Staff sponsored them to wear the furry animal costumes to raise funds for the ‘ Make A Wish Appeal ’ which makes dreams come true for sick children . |
| 5 | Their affinity with the right rather than the left allowed them to overlook the genuine nature of the fascist threat . |
| 6 | They reconstructed their Y6N17 compositions from averages of microprobe data and modal analyses of three groundmass minerals , including albite ( see figure ) , asserting that this technique allowed them to avoid the contaminating effects of xenoliths and secondary mineralization that pervade the sample . |
| 7 | He encouraged them to tackle the widespread Highland areas still under survey so that maps and memoirs could be published in an organised manner . |
| 8 | The authors have taken the basic concepts of keeping cichlids of all sizes and often adapted them to suit the best requirements of the species being kept . |
| 9 | Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single . |
| 10 | The majority in the snail darter case thought that the best interpretation of the convention about statutes required them to enforce the literal meaning of the Environmental Protection Act unless it could be proved that Congress intended otherwise . |
| 11 | The days have long passed when the courts adopted a strict constructionist view of interpretation which required them to adopt the literal meaning of the language . |
| 12 | They had fought their way to the top , often against strong competition — their ambition , and not their meekness , enabled them to inherit the heavenly positions of top management . |
| 13 | Getting more information on comparative performance also enabled them to ask the right questions , although it also demonstrated the continuing inadequacies of data . |
| 14 | The brontosaurs had long necks ( lower picture ) that enabled them to reach the high-growing conifers prevalent in the Jurassic . |
| 15 | Some ( e.g. pupil 3 ) attempted to obtain the answer to the question from the pattern of numbers relating to unshaded squares but most pupils saw the relationship between shaded and unshaded in each diagram which enabled them to calculate the required number directly . |
| 16 | The same attitude is recognizable in the fragments of the histories of Posidonius , the pupil of Panaetius who , amidst all his philosophical work , decided to become the continuator of Polybius for the period after 146 B.C. It is uncertain whether Posidonius concluded his histories with the events of Sulla 's dictatorship or whether he extended them to include the Eastern wars of Pompey . |
| 17 | Sotion and Ps. -Aristotle quoted them to confirm the remote origin of philosophy outside the Greek world ; but the main argument was represented by Magi and Brahmans who had a better and older reputation among Greek thinkers and historians ( Diog . |
| 18 | Because of that , I have merely pointed out incontrovertible facts , and left them to draw the inevitable conclusions . ’ |
| 19 | Next I listened to a message from Andy Kennedy talking about the unreached peoples of the 10–40 window , which includes Saudi Arabia , and how the Lord wanted them to hear the good news . |
| 20 | Added to this , at the time of retrieval subjects may have simply assumed that since this was an experiment about risk , the experimenter really wanted them to recall the risky situations . |