Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 2 | There was always a scramble to obtain them after the meeting . |
| 3 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 4 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 5 | Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth . |
| 6 | Immediately after his infamous singlet and shorts press conference , French and Fordham woke Wallaby manager John Breen , coach Bob Dwyer and captain Nick Farr-Jones to a meeting to inform them of the happenings over the previous 12 hours . |
| 7 | Buyers are given assembly instructions and a video to help them in the building of their car , and Mr Nearn maintains that the kits are not difficult to put together . |
| 8 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
| 9 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
| 10 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 11 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 12 | Wise move : Breeders of barn owls will need a licence to release them into the wild from January to stop them being freed into unsuitable areas ill equipped for life in the wild . |
| 13 | The date on which they were re-charged was in 1973 and was used as a pretext to deprive them of the right to be tried by a jury . |
| 14 | You will need a rope to lower them to the ground as they are heavy — throwing them down is dangerous . |
| 15 | Once formed in place , they could be extracted by the Frasch process — pumping superheated stream down a borehole to blow them to the surface in molten form . |
| 16 | Er , the plaintiff 's case is that there was a duty to advise them of the opportunity er which arose , from the refusal of the landlords to grant a licence for assignment erm and that their failure er to er give that er advice was in breach of duty and my Lord on page eighty five of the pleadings summary er page eighty five my Lord again er in answer to the the request for what advise it is alleged the defendant should give the plaintiff on the twenty second of October nineteen ninety five , at the top of the page . |
| 17 | ‘ We only release bitches who have been spayed and if they are still only puppies we give the new owners a date to take them to the vet . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |
| 19 | A band played as Canberra entered the port , and throughout disembarkation , each passenger received a flower to welcome them to the city . |
| 20 | A health clinic has stepped in to help patients who ca n't find a dentist to treat them on the National Health Service . |
| 21 | As far as heads were concerned , coordinators needed from them a properly negotiated version of the Authority 's job specification , support for the difficult tasks they were required to undertake , and a preparedness to include them within the team of senior staff involved in the development of policy . |