Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
2 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |
3 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
4 | Children may enjoy spreading out a large selection of junk materials on the floor , and exploring and experimenting with them with the teacher 's active participation and help . |
5 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
6 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
7 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
8 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
9 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
10 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
11 | The trick is to try and look beyond them to the interviewer and talk as though the two of you are having a personal conversation . |
12 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
13 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
14 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
15 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
16 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
17 | ‘ KENDAL : Printed and Published , by R. Lough and Co. and Sold by them at the Chronicle Office , Finkle Street : also by J. Richardson , 91 , Royal Exchange , London ; Constable , Edinburgh ; Smith , Liverpool ; Messrs. I. Clark , and Co . |
18 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
19 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
20 | The following proposed amendments to the Constitution are for your careful consideration so that you can comment and vote on them at the A.G.M. on Friday , 19th March 1982 . |
21 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
22 | Both Mr Megrahi and Mr Fhima told me they would be happy to meet Scottish or American investigators and talk to them about the case . ’ |
23 | Greet the wise one , and talk to them of the fears that you wish to overcome . |
24 | For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time . |
25 | When snow many feet deep blankets the land and the lake is covered with ice , the beavers are able to swim out from their lodge beneath the ice , retrieve the green branches and feed on them throughout the winter . |
26 | ( Grimmitt 1973 ) , which advocated the dimensional alongside the existential approach to RE , advised intermingling the experiential , mythological and ritual dimensions and focusing on them in the primary school , adding the social and ethical together for lower Secondary , and finally bringing in the doctrinal with the upper forms of Secondary schools , as this dimension is the most difficult to cope with ( pp. 50 , 92f ) . |
27 | Together these two essays are an attempt to construct the theoretical basis for an alternative to positivistic scholarships , an alternative that will deal with the specifically literary properties of texts , and deal with them with the same degree of objectivity and rigour as scholarship has traditionally claimed . |
28 | There was a deathly hush , no sound but the beautiful music rising up and swirling above them to the glittering pointed icicles in the illuminated cavernous roof . |
29 | He had been frightened until Ivan explained to him that the sun went to bed like everyone else and would be up and shining for them in the morning . |
30 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |