Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after . |
| 2 | Rachel wrenched herself out of his embrace , aware of the barman watching them with an indulgent smile , as though they were lovers , not enemies . |
| 3 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 4 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 5 | The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist 's waiting-room . |
| 6 | They grow up unbalanced , and need only minor frustrations or the stimulus of pornography to tip them into an orgy of violence against women and girls . |
| 7 | Their grandfather Traveller Ward ( David Kelly ) delights in telling the wide-eyed duo gypsy tales and one day presents them with an untamed white horse , which captures their imagination . |
| 8 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 9 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 10 | The music school in Langbaurgh 's German twin town of Troisdorf has invited groups from the district to join them in an international concert in autumn . |
| 11 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 12 | And this week the Government used them in an attempt to ‘ rehabilitate ’ sex scandal Minister David Mellor . |
| 13 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 14 | The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill ’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour ’ in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression — these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . |
| 15 | Then a helicopter pilot flew them to an area of bare ice studded with dark rocks near the Allan Hills ( 76°S ; 156°E ) . |
| 16 | Dolly 's voice brought them to an abrupt halt . |
| 17 | So it becomes a relatively straightforward matter to list them as an inventory . |
| 18 | Teign Machine Knitters welcome visitors to the area who are missing their knitting to join them for an evening . |
| 19 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 20 | Normally , developers paying a barrister to represent them at an inquiry must pick up the tab . |
| 21 | If a teenager decides to earn money doing a paper round , or a Saturday job , there is no reason why their mother should set her alarm in order to wake them at an unearthly hour . |
| 22 | The wedding was held in 1920 at Mouthlock Methodist Chapel , at South Stainmore , where Mother was the organist and , much to her surprise and delight , the members of the chapel presented them with an inscribed silver teapot . |
| 23 | I think that the hatred and suspicion that Catholic and Protestants have of each other in the North locks them in an Eastern-European time-warp . |
| 24 | The better quality of Danby and the other famous names of the Bristol School take them into an even higher price range . |
| 25 | With the increasing number of cutters and the decision to operate them on an all year round basis the closed shop tendency for crewing of the earlier days could not continue . |