Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 2 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 3 | His first experience of the conflict between two powerful men , tossing between them the idea of war . |
| 4 | Celebrate with them the Catholicity of the Church . |
| 5 | If taken to extremes , such policies carried within them the potential to precipitate a catastrophic decline into hyperinflation . |
| 6 | At a very early age the Spencer children had impressed upon them the value of good manners , honesty and accepting people for what they are , not for their position in life . |
| 7 | The children must have impressed upon them the need for personal cooperation within the classroom as essential to the variety of learning situations with which they will be faced . |
| 8 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 9 | Suggest to them the fact that when they had finished this one they would know absolutely bloody everything that could be possibly known , now and for always , about Wimbledon . |
| 10 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 11 | Always hovering like a vulture around the vulnerable , pressing on them the drinks and fattening foods to make all his dreams come true . |
| 12 | After , after er er I 've done with them the travel head lad takes over , he does all the ol the tra the race course , you know . |
| 13 | With a sigh she knew that in the morning when the people returned they would bring with them the rivalries and ill-feeling that had spoiled everything . |
| 14 | It was God 's intention that his people should always carry with them the values learnt at Mt Sinai . |
| 15 | ‘ While some parts of the industry are likely to be very profitable , other parts will have concealed dangers , which could well carry with them the seeds of financial disaster . ’ |
| 16 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 17 | In fact one of the problems of a stratificational analysis is that it classifies women in a somewhat arbitrary manner , sometimes assigning to them the class of their husbands or fathers and sometimes determining their class by their own occupations . |
| 18 | These new measurements were counted in two series of twelve with their poles at noon and midnight , and to differentiate between them the terms ante meridiem and post meridiem ( ‘ am ’ and ‘ pm ’ ) were coined . |
| 19 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 20 | The Stage I V8 was fitted with restrictors behind the carbs to ‘ strangle ’ the power down to comply with type approval regulations If you remove the carbs you will see behind them the restrictor ‘ plug ’ with three smaller holes in it Sometimes they pull out and sometimes they need breaking up with a chisel ( after removing the manifold ) This will give you quite a considerable increase in power , so watch the roadholding ! |
| 21 | Before your children come to Heriot 's we would like you to discuss with them the aims of this School and the values on which we lay emphasis . |
| 22 | Mr Dixon could hardly believe his ears as Hank poured into them the story of the book and its apparent success . |
| 23 | Both these versions of the expertise theory assure us that the special expertise of directors at once justifies conferring upon them the discretion to run the business and imposes a restraint on how they exercise that discretion . |
| 24 | Okay you 've talked to them the phone right and you 're gon na go and sign them up . |
| 25 | This department will have responsibilities for the Office of Arts & Libraries ( OAL ) , in particular for the Arts Council and the national museums , adding to them the Home Office responsibilities for the broadcasting services ' legislative framework and the BBC in particular . |
| 26 | Both men are reporting what seem to them the facts of the case , and they are the more confident about doing so because no Englishman has arisen to rebut their arguments . |
| 27 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 28 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 29 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 30 | Fincara cried , and light flared over them the woman 's laughing face , and Adam 's burning blindness . |