Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 2 | All depended on the navy and sometimes on the air force to land them at least somewhere near their target beaches . |
| 3 | High Court medical negligence actions are governed by Ord 38 , r5 which requires the party intending to produce plans , photographs or models at trial to give the other side the opportunity to inspect them at least 10 days before the hearing unless the court for " special reasons " orders otherwise . |
| 4 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 5 | Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room . |
| 6 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 7 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 8 | They want the driver and anyone who saw the accident to contact them at Group 4 Traffic on 051 777 5559 . |
| 9 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 10 | The problem remained also of women who had no male to give them at least partial support , because they were widowed , deserted or never married ; the census of 1911 counted 327,737 aged between 15 and 55 and thus likely to have dependent children . |
| 11 | They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites . |
| 12 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
| 13 | They also included the operation of ‘ stand down , ’ by which the airline retained scarce skills by allowing people to work elsewhere on part pay but having the opportunity to recall them at a month 's notice . |
| 14 | Undertakers ' men and grave-diggers had to be copiously supplied with liquor to keep them at work , and this added to the disorder and indecency . |
| 15 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
| 16 | Those statements may be true or false , but there is nothing in their form to exclude them at the outset from consideration . |
| 17 | Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it . |
| 18 | Leeds coach Doug Laughton has already lured former Wigan stars Andy Gregory , Andy Goodway and Ellery Hanley from Central Park and now looks set to try to persuade the 17-stone prop to join them at Headingley . |
| 19 | Normally , developers paying a barrister to represent them at an inquiry must pick up the tab . |
| 20 | If a teenager decides to earn money doing a paper round , or a Saturday job , there is no reason why their mother should set her alarm in order to wake them at an unearthly hour . |
| 21 | I tell you what your dad 's taken us to playschool to show them at play school wo n't you ? |
| 22 | If you want to keep the existing pipes ( perhaps using a tap adaptor ) , use a bath/basin spanner to disconnect them at the top . |
| 23 | Maybe Gloucester just do n't have the spending power to keep them at Kingsholm . |
| 24 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 25 | They become entangled in such a way that it is very rare for any to wriggle free , and while there is ample time to collect them at relative leisure they should nonetheless be collected as quickly as possible . |
| 26 | She almost walked right past the tent , then saw the statue of her mother and brought the sad remains of her son to lay them at Tallis 's feet . |