Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 2 | Between late July and early October 1936 the rebels drove home the advantage given them by Franco 's agreements with Mussolini and Hitler . |
| 3 | This lesson had been reinforced as far as the railways were concerned each spring from 1918 to 1920 , when urgent orders went out from the highest level to rehabilitate them in order to cope with the influx of vital foodstuffs and fuel to the towns . |
| 4 | EIiot 's intense sympathy with the fishermen of the Massachusetts coast transforms them into figures of endurance , secular saints , whose course is one of earthly failure which the toughest faith transforms into gain . |
| 5 | Voters depend much less on the cues and guidance given them by party workers and rely instead on television . |
| 6 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |
| 7 | There was a fair wind spattering them with rain as they made their descent to the beach . |
| 8 | Eventually their father came to some arrangement with the Education Authority and he was able to afford a small car to drive them to school . |
| 9 | There would be a concern to clarify the confusion which exists as to the " right " and " proper " principles for the British constitution today and then there would be an attempt to secure them against repeal or amendment except by some specially prescribed procedure that would involve more than a simple majority in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | ‘ We will need a Company car to meet them on arrival and get them to Quinn at the apartment , ’ said Odell . |
| 11 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 12 | Helping parents in this way is an attempt to provide them with child-management skills for life so that they can generate solutions to many of the problems they face without reference to professionals at all . |
| 13 | The fact that the white continued up the front of the neck identified them as king cormorants . |
| 14 | The sea 's turbulence increased ; the noise of the cannons ' fire was terrible , unknown , the men felt panic rise inside them , yet the fear lashed them into frenzy of battle — then another canoe tipped up , and another , but still not the one in which Dulé rode . |
| 15 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 16 | Subjects were asked to try five types of toilet seat ranking them in order of preference . |
| 17 | The rule that cases should be prepared for trial by someone other than the advocate presenting them in court should not apply to solicitors , the committee said . |
| 18 | The cod , he reported , were so thick in the water that his sailors had only to lower their baskets over the side to fill them with fish . |
| 19 | The issue is that , despite the information available , CSM took no action to protect patients from practolol at least from January to October 1975 ; and again took no action to protect them from benoxaprofen from October 1981 to August 1982 . |
| 20 | The news will throw Tottenham 's future to fresh confusion and leave the club hoping desperately that manager Terry Venables can put together a deal to save them from collapse . |
| 21 | Let us hope that the electorate sack them in April . |
| 22 | My great-uncle brought them from Italy ; he was terribly proud of them . ’ |
| 23 | Why do the Government preach that we should listen to industry when they ignore everything that industry tells them about training in the construction sector ? |
| 24 | Half way round the first lap a short sharp guest of wind took them by surprise and they found themselves having an early bath . |
| 25 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 26 | The four were brought ashore by Bangor inshore lifeboat and a waiting ambulance took them to Belfast 's Mater Hospital suffering from hypothermia . |
| 27 | She kept up the desperate battle until another ambulance reached them near Hexham , Northumberland . |
| 28 | The Underground took them to Waterloo and another train carried them to Woking where they were met by Louise 's husband , Jim . |
| 29 | The children were killed when masked gunmen opened fire on the minibus taking them to school . |
| 30 | The Chelsea Waterworks Co. were authorised by statute to lay mains and were under a statutory duty to maintain a continuous supply of water ; it was an inevitable consequence that damage would be caused by occasional bursts and so by necessary implication the statute exempted them from liability where there was no ‘ negligence . ’ |