Example sentences of "[verb] to they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 2 | It is a power committed to them by the judges , a power which the judges may resume . |
| 3 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 4 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 5 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 6 | Once a month we reported to them on the editorial , marketing and financial developments of the magazine . |
| 7 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 8 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 9 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 10 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |
| 11 | Until the 1930s , for example , it was a routine practice of the London police to record thefts reported to them by the public as ‘ lost property ’ . |
| 12 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 13 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 14 | When the lonely howl of a wolf carried to them through the forest , Isabel jumped , glancing at the door as if she expected to see the beast standing there . |
| 15 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 16 | Both bodies publish application forms recommended for use when applying to them for the appointment of experts or arbitrators : copies of the forms are reproduced in Appendices G and H. The Law Society has also published its requested procedure : see [ 1986 ] Law Society 's Gazette 2542 , reprinted in Appendix B. It is important that applicants follow the procedure of applying on prescribed forms . |
| 17 | Where the defence arises our courts will act upon the so-called ‘ M'Naghten ’ rules , propounded by the judges in response to questions addressed to them by the House of Lords . |
| 18 | ‘ What happens to them in the wood ? ’ |
| 19 | It is through their confidence in the adequacy of a paradigm that scientists are able to devote their energies to attempts to solve the detailed puzzles presented to them within the paradigm , rather than engage in disputes about the legitimacy of their fundamental assumptions and methods . |
| 20 | Although , in principle , the communities of interest are allowed to raise in ‘ contributions ’ only the amounts agreed by the delegates from their member ‘ organizations or associated labour ’ , in practice , such organizations have little option but to agree with proposals presented to them by the community managers . |
| 21 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 22 | Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission ? |
| 23 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 24 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 25 | In the autumn of 1930 , the sub-committee was instructed to consult the governing bodies , and the medical and surgical staffs at the voluntary hospitals , ‘ in order to enable the county council to discharge the functions transferred to them under the Local Government Act 1929 , Section 13 , relating to the provision of hospital accommodation ’ . |
| 26 | The key to the achievement of a consensus lay in Hawke 's agreement to increase the financial autonomy of individual states by expanding their powers to raise taxes and by loosening controls on how they spent money transferred to them by the federal government . |
| 27 | We listen to them in the car . |
| 28 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 29 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 30 | When word came to them of the Macleans , three galleys off the Rubha Aird Druimnich , they just sat and waited quietly for their enemies to arrive . |