Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 32 | Even if we were to obtain substantial concessions and eliminate all our strategic nuclear weapons , we could not eliminate all theirs , so we would merely leave them with a residual capability which would be overwhelming and a continual menace to ourselves . |
| 33 | When I first went , I thought I 'd only get them for a couple of weeks at the most . |
| 34 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 35 | Erm th the general idea is that I 'm actually responding to a request from last years ' student group so that the previous lecturer did pass on to me that the student group had been unhappy that there were too many texts referred to as they could n't necessarily get them from the library and they could n't afford to buy more than one text . |
| 36 | This was put by an MP of long experience to the House of Commons Environment Committee : ‘ If you want to save these buildings , you will only save them by stealth . ’ |
| 37 | I think there 's something that we have n't discussed , and that 's that , doctors do n't seem to prescribe tranquillizers to men , it 's women , and they do wrongly prescribe them to women . |
| 38 | Put the rest of them , I mean , i , i , i , in the storage binder or you know , or you can obviously put them in the active binder if you want to do . |
| 39 | If mixing causes difficulties , will the dementia sufferers gain from a segregated day centre or segregated days in a day centre or hospital , or will this merely put them at a disadvantage ? b Literature Arie ( 1979 ) states that we need to know more of the pros and cons of integration in day hospitals . |
| 40 | This does not make them invalid : one should merely put them in their appropriate context . |
| 41 | You 'd better put them in touch with me . ’ |
| 42 | The Scottish Typographical Circular reported of this conflict that " people are beginning to see that making women printers … will only unfit them for the active and paramount duties of female society " . |
| 43 | ‘ We should perhaps remind them of the dangers they run , provoking us to … retaliate ? ’ |
| 44 | I can only relieve them by this . ’ |
| 45 | a boxing promoter who reckons you should only wear them for er n evenings , obviously . |
| 46 | ‘ Had n't you better warn them about me , then ? ’ |
| 47 | One can then perhaps forgive them for faulty ( though consistent ) reasoning on the ( conventional ) comparative static effects ? |
| 48 | They remained fearful of the opening of any loophole that would more easily expose them to fraud or abuse of the credit they had extended in good faith . |
| 49 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
| 50 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 51 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 52 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 53 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 54 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 55 | In a climate of teacher expertise , teachers frequently pre-empt pupils ' decisions because they do not want them to ‘ get into a mess ’ . |
| 56 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 57 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
| 58 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 59 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 60 | But this does not disqualify them from using the word , any more than the English who displaced the ancient Britons are disqualified from continuing to use the name ‘ Britain ’ ( no doubt to the irritation of their southern neighbours , the Bretons of Bretagne ) . |