Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 2 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 3 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 4 | His first experience of the conflict between two powerful men , tossing between them the idea of war . |
| 5 | There was disagreement between the two companies as to whose responsibility would be the making of this towpath , so that in the end they built between them a new bridge just beyond the bottom lock . |
| 6 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 7 | She , speaking Slovene , had managed to understand their primitive Russian , and they were delighted to have found a civilian who was able to communicate with them a little , and who reminded them of their mothers . |
| 8 | Celebrate with them the Catholicity of the Church . |
| 9 | The more frankly we could discuss with them the better . ’ |
| 10 | The waves that had deposited the hull and broken masts had carried with them a body — that of the only widower on board . |
| 11 | These rhetorical features seem , however , to suffer from being at odds with the rest of the passage , as if James wants us to catch in them a certain false emotionalism in the tone of the speaker . |
| 12 | When you sort out your notes , Sergeant , you might include in them the additional information that my car was parked at the other end of Boundary Drive , the end furthest away from Glenfair Road , see ? |
| 13 | If taken to extremes , such policies carried within them the potential to precipitate a catastrophic decline into hyperinflation . |
| 14 | The Steward 's party , having cleared out the domestic quarters , arrived at that side of the keep , driving before them a crowd of servitors and general retainers , women amongst them , many only partially clad . |
| 15 | At a very early age the Spencer children had impressed upon them the value of good manners , honesty and accepting people for what they are , not for their position in life . |
| 16 | The children must have impressed upon them the need for personal cooperation within the classroom as essential to the variety of learning situations with which they will be faced . |
| 17 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 18 | New moralists argued that contemporary society denied women ‘ those varied love-makings from the other sex ’ , which would arouse in them a desire to fill life ‘ with a space of joy and delight ’ . |
| 19 | Suggest to them the fact that when they had finished this one they would know absolutely bloody everything that could be possibly known , now and for always , about Wimbledon . |
| 20 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 21 | I report on them every week for the Ministry of Agriculture . ’ |
| 22 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 23 | It is very important to give children room to think for themselves and not to impose on them a restricting interpretation of truth . |
| 24 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 25 | Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ? |
| 26 | Always hovering like a vulture around the vulnerable , pressing on them the drinks and fattening foods to make all his dreams come true . |
| 27 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 28 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 29 | I think your doctor is right when he says that you need time to get over the loss of your dad and your friend , and it is only right and natural that you should think of them a lot , but if you try to turn your thoughts to good and happy memories of them that will be the best way of honouring them , and will help you , too . |
| 30 | No wonder , then , that we make of them a symbol of our own visionary dreams . |