Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] them [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If superiors involve them in decision-making , they are more likely to be management-minded . |
| 2 | This lesson had been reinforced as far as the railways were concerned each spring from 1918 to 1920 , when urgent orders went out from the highest level to rehabilitate them in order to cope with the influx of vital foodstuffs and fuel to the towns . |
| 3 | ‘ Cyclists in bus lanes may also cause delay to buses , although banning cyclists places them in danger if they are required to ride in the main carriageway , with buses passing on their nearside . ’ |
| 4 | Voters depend much less on the cues and guidance given them by party workers and rely instead on television . |
| 5 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |
| 6 | Candidates using them for project or course work may have an advantage if spelling is one of the skills being tested . |
| 7 | There was a fair wind spattering them with rain as they made their descent to the beach . |
| 8 | Eventually their father came to some arrangement with the Education Authority and he was able to afford a small car to drive them to school . |
| 9 | Loretta and Bridget stood up to join him , bending and stretching their cramped legs to restore them to life . |
| 10 | Because they worked for large , modern firms , the state was closely involved with their employers , which meant their industrial grievances led them into conflict with the state . |
| 11 | Council Courier continued to be circulated to regions and branches to inform them without delay of the decisions of Council . |
| 12 | There would be a concern to clarify the confusion which exists as to the " right " and " proper " principles for the British constitution today and then there would be an attempt to secure them against repeal or amendment except by some specially prescribed procedure that would involve more than a simple majority in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | With increasing demands on caterers to provide top quality food quickly and efficiently , chefs are turning to well-established equipment manufacturers to provide them with state of the art equipment which will make their job easier . |
| 14 | ‘ We will need a Company car to meet them on arrival and get them to Quinn at the apartment , ’ said Odell . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With a spreadsheet you can alter values , constants or the formulae relating them at will and the entire sheet will reflect these changes , instantly . |
| 17 | Helping parents in this way is an attempt to provide them with child-management skills for life so that they can generate solutions to many of the problems they face without reference to professionals at all . |
| 18 | The fact that the white continued up the front of the neck identified them as king cormorants . |
| 19 | The sea 's turbulence increased ; the noise of the cannons ' fire was terrible , unknown , the men felt panic rise inside them , yet the fear lashed them into frenzy of battle — then another canoe tipped up , and another , but still not the one in which Dulé rode . |
| 20 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 21 | Subjects were asked to try five types of toilet seat ranking them in order of preference . |
| 22 | At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast . |
| 23 | She came home to Oxford at weekends , and she and Eleanor and Anna spent Saturdays together , and often the husbands joined them for supper . |
| 24 | Runways were constructed and a squadron of jet fighters pounded them to destruction . |
| 25 | The rule that cases should be prepared for trial by someone other than the advocate presenting them in court should not apply to solicitors , the committee said . |
| 26 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 27 | The most obvious way of preventing cracks from spreading in brittle materials is not to use them in tension , in other words to use them in compression . |
| 28 | The store manager said he would motivate subordinates in the following ways : offering praise , incentives , providing re-training , and finally a quiet talk if nothing else succeeded ; in other words threatening them with dismissal . |
| 29 | The ambitious Hall , famed cup specialists , are still involved in both the Rothmans and the Welsh Knockout Cups and need the talents of County choice Peers to keep them on track for the double . |
| 30 | The issue is that , despite the information available , CSM took no action to protect patients from practolol at least from January to October 1975 ; and again took no action to protect them from benoxaprofen from October 1981 to August 1982 . |