Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either they win the faint gratitude of listeners by reminding them of the original with a faithful remake , or they rip the original to shreds and reassemble it in a manner pleasing to themselves . |
| 2 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 3 | A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons . |
| 4 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 5 | Through their wholly unacceptable behaviour , keoi mark themselves apart from humans , while reminding them of the possibility of such behaviour . |
| 6 | I have sent out a memo to all staff reminding them of the procedure for sickness . |
| 7 | SCOTVEC has written to colleges reminding them of the availability of a devolved system of assessment for awards for which only one college provides the course . |
| 8 | Please encourage your classes to try their hand at poster designing , reminding them of the closing date for receipt at the Office is 17th March . |
| 9 | At the lasts two A.G.M. 's of the parent body , the Hong Kong Branch has failed to comply with the constitution in that they have not submitted a Branch Report for consideration by the A.G.M. The chairman of Standing Committee has subsequently written to the Branch on several occasions reminding them of the need to submit a report and so far , has not received a reply . |
| 10 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 11 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 12 | And it stops you having to hit them with a brick . |
| 13 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 14 | You do n't even have to hit them off the ground . |
| 15 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 16 | ‘ And they play the pipes , just as the Arab plays them with a bag holding air , ’ I added . |
| 17 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 18 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 19 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 20 | take him on the outside , take him on the inside , take him on the outside , inside , outside , let him through outside , inside , in squeeze them between the lot of them look |
| 21 | Moreover , these activities are interactions between students , and as such may fail to alert them to the choice and ordering of information produced by native speakers . |
| 22 | Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students . |
| 23 | Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after . |
| 24 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 25 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 26 | As far as heads were concerned , coordinators needed from them a properly negotiated version of the Authority 's job specification , support for the difficult tasks they were required to undertake , and a preparedness to include them within the team of senior staff involved in the development of policy . |
| 27 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 28 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 29 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 30 | Incidentally , if you have any items which you think would be of interest to the Residents , your scribe would be happy to include them in the Newsletter . |