Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 2 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Will serving dishes , cutlery , table linen be kept in the kitchen or is there space for them near the dining table ? |
| 5 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 6 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 7 | We listen to them in the car . |
| 8 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 9 | Just the same as you can accept the fact that somebody says to you that I can not really afford your windows , right , just the same as when you first speak to them on the phone , you can say oh sorry , sorry to bother you and put the phone down because it said you |
| 10 | By their day-to-day actions , children can also affect the way in which their parents react to them in the most powerful and direct manner . |
| 11 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 12 | I welcomed moves to cut price increases and did not find that they were being done in secret — I read about them in the newspapers and elsewhere . |
| 13 | Participants of the ladder league are also invited to enter the special k.o. competitions run for them throughout the year . |
| 14 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 15 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 16 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 17 | ‘ Mind you look after them on the journey and buy them sweets and comic books for the train . ’ |
| 18 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 19 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 20 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 21 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 22 | More abstractly the particularities of circumstance which attended both Julian 's and Margery 's report of their experiences illuminate the position of women and the roles open to them within the heirarchy of spiritual authority in the late medieval period . |
| 23 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 24 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 25 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 26 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 27 | Residential workers significantly contribute to the psychological development of young people in their care when they stand by them in the face of the young person 's opposition or retreat , and when they continue to strive to know and understand them . |
| 28 | The other causes lie in the readers alone : the habits of thought and feeling that they bring with them to the text , which distort or block their response to it . |
| 29 | Four great panthers crash into them at the pavement with a thud like a sledgehammer hitting a mudflat . |
| 30 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |