Example sentences of "[verb] they of the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Immigration and Nationality Department of the Home Office has asked through the Scottish Education Department that we write to all governing bodies in Scotland reminding them of the difficulties created by urgent requests for naturalisation shortly before international sporting events . |
| 2 | A number of initiatives are planned to contact more women to encourage them of the benefits of involvement . |
| 3 | Immediately after his infamous singlet and shorts press conference , French and Fordham woke Wallaby manager John Breen , coach Bob Dwyer and captain Nick Farr-Jones to a meeting to inform them of the happenings over the previous 12 hours . |
| 4 | Modern science ignores this at its peril , and Xorandor may be read as a fable for scientists and would-be scientists , written in their own idiom , warning them of the consequences of cutting their project off from its conceptual genealogy , its own founding story . |
| 5 | As they travelled west , along the same route that the young cadet had come , they met travellers who told them of the horrors of the revolution . |
| 6 | Mr Crowden told them of the terms of the will and suggested that Violet 's legacy seemed a poor reward and that it might be improved . |
| 7 | She told them of the hardships suffered by our men . |
| 8 | At the start , this strategy was to show the electorate that the Prime Minister was ‘ a very nice person ’ , tell them of the horrors of Labour 's tax policies and hope that in the twinkling of Mr Heseltine 's eye — aided by the applause of some celebrities and a giant ( and inexplicably awful ) stage set — the Conservatives would be back in government . |
| 9 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 10 | Peter gives all new members of staff a document which tells them what their duties are and reminds them of the rights of the residents . |
| 11 | Counselling will advise them of the risks , if any , that they may be taking by embarking on a further conception . |
| 12 | ‘ We should perhaps remind them of the dangers they run , provoking us to … retaliate ? ’ |
| 13 | He was refused permission to shut the bar at 1am but keep the club open until 2am , and made an announcement to clubbers telling them of the police decision . |
| 14 | Cash crop exports are politically ‘ safe ’ in the sense that hard currency earnings allow Third World governments to buy in cheap grain to feed their urban populations , and relieve them of the problems of ensuring adequate food supplies from what sometimes appears to be a permanently disgruntled peasantry . |