Example sentences of "[prep] them [conj] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Instead of sending donations to different charities direct , providing the minimum annual sum is over £120 a year ( or over £10 a month ) , donors can ‘ gift ’ the money to CAF who will maintain a ‘ charity cheque account ’ for them and will distribute the money to whichever charities they nominate .
2 Our Services deserve the excellent pay and conditions which we have secured for them and will maintain .
3 Mr Dunn said the firm hoped to create more jobs in the not too distant future , while Roddy Ross of Tecnomarine said the partnership between the two engineering firms represented a strengthening of relations between them and would work to mutual advantage .
4 But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females .
5 So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do .
6 Erm you had friends everywh , in all sorts of places , you did n't dally , shall we say , in some of them that might have been a bit smelly .
7 I 'm gon na try and get a few more of them that can dig .
8 All the rest of them that could play golf enjoyed it , because
9 I will not dwell upon them but will re-emphasise what has already been said and ask you to give us all your support .
10 They would have lists of all the people that had bought books from them or might have bought books from them in the past , categorized by where they live , the age of the person , the sex , the special interests , the past purchases , and then they would send out special books erm special letters , if they had a new doggie book coming out they might select all the ladies over fifty-five who had bought doggie books in the past .
11 They took the little house two doors away from Ken and Rhoda ; her own to play with , to sweep and dust and arrange as she liked , and meals for two to cook at her discretion , and her father and grandmother just down the road so she had both a respite from them and could keep an eye on them , not too close but not too far .
12 We will turn this responsibility over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word . ’
13 Now yes there are times when other people give you arguments and will try and change it around and and you know yes we will listen to them and will agree that but what we want to know is ultimately is what 's going to be done about it .
14 The assumptions underpinning the theory are that new suppliers can easily enter the market and there are no restraints on trade ; that consumers are well-informed about their wants and the choices open to them and can exert leverage over sellers by threatening to take their business elsewhere .
15 Bernheim 's results suggested that he had found some substances which were good for tubercle bacilli , and , by applying the principle of competitive antagonism , he sought closely related compounds which would also be taken up by them but would block the pathway of the stimulants .
16 It does not claim that the reasons which are supposed to be displaced by authoritative instructions are not replaced by them but should count as additional independent reasons alongside the instructions .
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