Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 2 | One solution that government has used is to replace or override them with more compliant organisations such as the urban development corporations referred to above . |
| 3 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 4 | The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors . |
| 5 | It would be impractical to attempt to review or catalogue them in this study and , although we will mention some specific products , we will confine this section mainly to illustrating general authoring issues . |
| 6 | We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful . |
| 7 | People who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering ( if male ) and hysterical ( if female ) , and the appropriate treatment was a stiff talking-to , designed to exhort or scare them into ‘ stopping all this nonsense ’ and ‘ pulling themselves together ’ . |
| 8 | 5 Corps was still under orders not to provoke or resist them by force , for the reasons Macmillan had explained on his visit on 13 May , and on the evening of 14 May Gen McCreery confirmed this in a message to Gen Keightley [ KP 106 ] : agreement confirmed that Maj Dubajic would remain at Kappel with Lt Lochhead of 6 SF ( SOE ) to make arrangements for the hand-over of further 10,000 Croats by 23 May making a total of 13,000 Croats to be repatriated . |
| 9 | It has the power to suspend or expel them from college . |
| 10 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 11 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 12 | They move around the tank , scattering the smaller fish in all directions , although they do n't attack or harm them in any way . |
| 13 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 14 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 15 | Telling me the strangest things sometimes , evil things — till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose I could try and make them like me , ’ Jessamy said doubtfully . |
| 17 | We shall attempt to apply and adapt them to a much shorter viewing distance , under controlled laboratory conditions . |
| 18 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 19 | This seminar is designed specifically for all those who come into contact with IBM 's products and terminology and who want to be able to understand and discuss them in order to carry out their jobs more effectively . |
| 20 | My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft . |
| 21 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 22 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 23 | The most serious danger , however , is that the ‘ people bit ’ gets lost — plans often assume that people will work and prosecute them in logical , rational ways , which of course they do not . |
| 24 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 25 | In fact , th the New York Saint Andrews Society which exists to er I think to er , apart from to hold er meetings and er get togethers , also to assist er Scots in New York , at least that was one of it 's original er , principles , they have a er a splendid dinner with all these gentlemen in full kilts , kengroms , don'tski and do 's , the whole bangshoot , and and their their women folk can come and watch them from the gallery upstairs . |
| 26 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 27 | This ( almost certainly unintended ) result is a consequence of the writer relying on other people to state ideas rather than trying to understand and restate them in her or his own voice . |
| 28 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 29 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 30 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |