Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ . |
| 2 | They are all faced with the power of God in Jesus who has come to destroy them . |
| 3 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 4 | ‘ They know what she has come to tell them . ’ |
| 5 | Their ability to contain or manage the conflict when this has threatened to engulf them as well as the regional contestants , for example in 1967 and 1973 , contrasts sharply with their inability to transact a peace process which transcends their own rivalry in order to resolve the conflict . |
| 6 | There is then no longer them and us , for the mind has expanded to include them and us in one larger us . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that the state has decided to put them to death , many prisoners remain positively patriotic , and refuse to dismiss the notion that America 's injustices can not be reformed . |
| 8 | ‘ There was such a hue and cry about the cost of the tiny Thunderbird figures that this time round the toy company has decided to scrap them , ’ said Huge Von of Leisureworld in Belfast . |
| 9 | Fearful of the consequences of higher tea prices , the government has sought to stabilise them by fiddling the weekly Calcutta auctions . |
| 10 | It has sought to get them to extend loans to borrowers , who hitherto , because of their low incomes or because of the areas in which they want to buy houses , have not been able to get help from the societies . |
| 11 | A proposal to require plain generic packaging for all cigarettes , which the Victorian Anti-Cancer Council 's Centre for Behavioural Research has shown makes them less attractive to adolescents , has been deferred for a year . |
| 12 | Having only recently arrived in the Province , this is the first ti me he has had to do them , and they are taking him some ti me . |
| 13 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 14 | This was an amazing competition and everybody enjoyed it so much Mike has promised to give them Reliant Robins for their next company cars . |
| 15 | A major chain of retailers has agreed to withdraw them from sale , but hundreds are still thought to be in use . |
| 16 | If he has agreed to help them , he will also try to enter , but will vanish on crossing the threshold — called back to his stasis somewhere in the warp . |
| 17 | Until this week , they had all their lessons together , but following a governor 's meeting , the school has agreed to segregate them for swimming lessons in the school 's pool . |
| 18 | Salvation history is the story of God and his people and how God , since creation , has attempted to reconcile them to himself . |
| 19 | It came forward with these proposals , and it has attempted to bludgeon them through the House . |
| 20 | Up to this point I have described these complex psychological developments in a manner which has attempted to make them as clear and as intelligible as possible . |
| 21 | An owner who wishes to bring a claim to recover possession of his goods from someone who has refused to return them can bring a claim for conversion ( Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 ) . |
| 22 | When the cream has gone fill them with daffodils , set them on a table centre of tawny orange silk with a bordering of asparagus fern . |
| 23 | In areas such as Cheltenham , Hereford and Eastbourne there is little to suggest that anything new has happened to enable them to translate this into general election support . |
| 24 | Mr Aznar has tried to combat them by promising ‘ rational change ’ , pledging to keep , for example , Spain 's restrictive abortion law . |
| 25 | But for twenty years a south hereford district council has tried to get them evicted . |
| 26 | She was with the family when they were told that his body had been found and has tried to help them through their grief . |
| 27 | Although the American Government supports the peace process , it has urged the contras to remain in Honduras until after the Nicaraguan election and has continued to provide them with non-military funds . |
| 28 | But no one has admitted planting them . |
| 29 | The modern world has discovered that citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C — and has started using them in a big way for cooking . |
| 30 | And now he has returned to help them , through his chosen disciples . ’ |