Example sentences of "of [verb] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 2 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 3 | If , as Marland ( 1981 ) suggests , schools should develop new integrated subjects they will be faced with the task of getting them approved by the Secondary Examinations Council under the National Criteria for the various conventional subjects . |
| 4 | Marriages of persons over that age , but under 18 , are completely valid ; and the only check on such marriages without the consent of parents or guardians is the difficulty of getting them celebrated by the clergyman or proper officer without making a false declaration , which involves penal consequences . |
| 5 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |
| 6 | Quite possibly the ulterior motive was to convince the EEC states of the virtues of EFTA 's low tariffs , with the end objective of persuading them to return to the conference table to negotiate a multilateral trading agreement that would hold the two parts of Western Europe together . |
| 7 | Nenna would never have dreamed before this of asking them to look after the girls . |
| 8 | ‘ The unit assures us that the decision to have frozen meals delivered to disabled and elderly people , instead of having them prepared in the person 's house by a home help , is not a money saving measure , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Anyone who after time purchases goods from the defendant therefore runs the risk of having them seized by the sheriff . |
| 10 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |