Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Fiji stood tall while all about them went slip-sliding away . |
2 | We have to allow disabled people access to this equipment , if we are serious about them taking part in the planning and evaluation of services . |
3 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
4 | We 've made plenty of enemies over the years , even politicians here at the UN , and this will provide them with the perfect ammunition for them to shoot UNACO down in flames . |
5 | They may also be able to build in some safeguards which would make it possible for them to give permission . |
6 | The chemical agent which they contain , making it possible for them to use water in the photosynthetic process , is chlorophyll , which is also possessed by true algae and the higher plants . |
7 | Consequently accountants are in a highly dependent position compared to most professions ; it is difficult for them to use professionalism as a market strategy . |
8 | Tell your branch the date it was written , the number of the cheque , who it was made out to and for how much , and sign an authorization for them to stop payment . |
9 | There will no doubt be an excuse for them to drink vodka together again soon . |
10 | For the first , public ownership is a virtual absolute , the derogations from it minimal and the necessity for them requiring proof . |
11 | Given full rein to run as far as they want , the plants are living very well and do n't feel in any particular danger , so there is no need for them to waste energy by perpetuating the species and going to the trouble of producing flower and setting seed . |
12 | The work of health visitors — traditionally and profitably with mothers and children — threatens to be ‘ undermined ’ by increasing requests from general practitioners for them to take part in the home care of the very old ( ibid. : 131 ) . |
13 | Although the story of Croton 's lost Helen admitted that no single girl of the southern peninsula in those days was entirely beautiful enough , it was still recalled by the attending spectators at the Sunday promenade , by the old men and women no longer in the marriage stakes , by the servants whom custom forbade from parading — as if the cost of new or spruced-up clothes did not make it impossible for them to take part anyway . |
14 | It may be that , for them , the attraction of SSE in general and of this scheme in particular lies in the opportunity it appears to offer for them to take part in decisions about school policy . |
15 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
16 | And this was their undoing because the surfaces of the branches had earlier been covered with lime to make it impossible for them to take flight again — ever again . |
17 | So , using the public address you send , to that zone only , a warning for them to take care . |
18 | The Socialists had captured a large number of the Councils and Boards of Guardians throughout the country , and there was only one thing left for them to take charge of — the British Empire . |
19 | Income for them includes taxation , which provides no measure of the willingness of the community to pay . |
20 | Advertising made it possible for them to distribute news practically free of charge , with the profit coming from marketing . |
21 | The problems facing their industries and the need for them to show restraint . |
22 | It is easy for them to play football , it 's like other sports but I mean , people say that sports is nay for women ! |
23 | We make sure and many of our tenants , of course , are in receipt of housing benefit , those on the lowest incomes , and for them housing benefit will meet most , if not all , of the increase , but there are many tenants who do n't get housing benefit who will have to pay the increase themselves . |
24 | If anyone else lives there they 'll know what I mean ) My intense dislike for them grows day by day , just like my overdraught . |
25 | Many patients will be having problems with their partners and for them conjoint treatment will often be appropriate . |
26 | I mean it really does depend upon how secure they were and how much , how much support , ge genuine support they had of the , the masses as a whole , because if they did n't then there 's no way , and people were n't calling for them to establish socialism at that time were they ? |
27 | Later abolitionists exemplified in Buxton and Cropper , though it might have seemed easier for them to adopt antislavery as a routine , not only maintained vital feeling in their commitment but possessed sufficient accompanying serenity — ‘ we have more than human help ’ — to accommodate setbacks and ‘ to triumph over the storms which surround them ’ . |
28 | INDUSTRIALISTS in the US hope that a new research facility providing high-energy radiation will recover for them lost ground in areas as diverse as microcircuitry and metals processing . |
29 | It is tempting for them to assume guardianship and disciplinary powers that they do not possess . |
30 | Today , of course , the importance of political parties makes it difficult for members of Parliament to claim to represent all their constituents ; but equally makes it difficult for them to assume delegate roles . |