Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the council is planning to put a bill through parliament to allow them to restrict winter grazing . |
| 2 | Their desire for re-election forces them to adopt strategies in which they are highly sensitive to pressure groups . |
| 3 | The birds are stocked at a rate of 5,000 per hectare in a fenced off pasture to protect them from foxes and other predators . |
| 4 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
| 5 | Has he for instance consulted them with their rights under the Tenants Charter ? |
| 6 | Did it make them stronger in their faith so that when they leave school and face the terrible temptation of the world , the fact that they danced on the altar during mass strengthen them against the temptation ? |
| 7 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 8 | Presumably the viewers ' discarded baked bean cans are not for actually building the intensive care units , but are to be recycled for money to fund them . |
| 9 | Schools , shut on April 9 after rioting rendered them unmanageable [ see p. 38135 ] , were ordered to reopen on May 6 but , in Lomé ( the capital ) at least , pupils boycotted classes . |
| 10 | Three wickets fell , though , in the first half hour after lunch to leave them wobbling at 61 for four . |
| 11 | Close grazing encourages clovers ; repeated hay crops year after year depresses them . |
| 12 | And they 're ideal in kids room we 're gon na , we got , if we can get up after Christmas get them for Lee |
| 13 | Dunlop have been working hard over the winter and Rainey 's lap times during testing proves they 'll be right there . ’ |
| 14 | However , when the researchers reached the shop floor they discovered that robots were far too expensive for management to waste them on unskilled jobs . |
| 15 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 16 | Thame 's Russell was then dismissed for dissent taking them down to nine men , from which there was no way back and Headington ran out comfortable winners . |
| 17 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 18 | Nobody 's listening but I insist : ‘ This fairness of skin obliges them to shield themselves so that if they do catch the sun they avoid the obvious danger of peeling . |
| 19 | By shaving they have an aerodynamic advantage because the absence of hair helps them to go faster . |
| 20 | The denial of tenderness cuts them off from communication with wives and children . |
| 21 | The thick rumbling roar of thunder enveloped them . |
| 22 | What sort of lifestyle/ did they present ? |
| 23 | To fix the drills in the handle , a bit of Araldite holds them fast . |
| 24 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 25 | The presence of hydrogen means they are less stable in the atmosphere , leading to a greatly reduced atmospheric residence time . |
| 26 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 27 | Last night , the Ministry of Defence said they would not be taking action against the ‘ snooper ’ trooper — unless the information he divulged breached national security . |
| 28 | The Ministry of Defence say they 'll help anyone who asks for help … |
| 29 | A pesticide used on the Continent , where varroa is widespread , is not licensed for use in Britain , but beekeepers are asking the Ministry of Agriculture to let them to use it . |
| 30 | ‘ Determination in favour of [ the first and second respondents ] of their defence of settlement entitles them to judgment on [ the petitioner 's ] claims … |