Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 2 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 3 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 4 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 5 | The courses are aimed at senior management and are intended to provide them with the knowledge and skills to exploit AIT effectively in their business . |
| 6 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 7 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 8 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 9 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 10 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 11 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 12 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 13 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 14 | However , I will seek to set them in the wider context of the Government 's commitment and programme for the computerisation of general practice . |
| 15 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 16 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 17 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 18 | Agencies are given budgets and are expected to use them in the most efficient way possible . |
| 19 | Do you like it straight out the fridge , well , I left it in the fridge , first of all , said oh get the , get the cheeses out , and I said , no I want to leave them in the fridge , I want those nice and cool . |
| 20 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 21 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 22 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 23 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 24 | When the first Vietnamese arrived in 1975 after the fall of Saigon , the federal government tried to spread them around the country . |
| 25 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 26 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 27 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 28 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 29 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 30 | ‘ I just want to bury them in the ground . |