Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 2 | ‘ We goin' take these politician' , leetle dog , an' we goin' put them in one beeg hole so they don' come back . |
| 3 | I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this . |
| 4 | Because we all try to twist circumstances in such a way that they conform with our subconscious picture of ourselves , those who see themselves as permanent victims will automatically seek out people who are going to treat them as such . |
| 5 | The only major difference between such accounts and pluralist accounts is that pluralists tend to describe the specific political pressures without attempting to relate them to broader theories of the relationship between state , society and economy . |
| 6 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
| 7 | You were going to sell them at one and tuppence each . |
| 8 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
| 9 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 10 | Were they not going to destroy them after all ? |
| 11 | It now seems more fruitful to many political scientists and sociologists to concentrate their analysis upon the political structure and processes of change within fairly well defined types of political system — tribal societies , city-states , bureaucratic empires and other imperial regimes , absolutist states , socialist or capitalist industrial states , and so on — without attempting to locate them in some all-embracing historical scheme . |
| 12 | We 're going to push them on this one , Clarac . |
| 13 | By abolishing their organs of self-government , attempting to enrol them in secular educational institutions , and trying much harder than earlier legislators to force them out of the countryside into the towns , the Minister of State Properties intensified the subversion of Jewish communal life which had begun when community leaders had to make invidious choices about recruits for the army . |
| 14 | Now originally the trip was going to take them through many middle eastern countries including Jordan and Israel , er have you had to change your plans at all Andrew , it sounds as though that might not be the ideal place to be going at the moment ? |
| 15 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 16 | I was just going to tell them about all the things that were on my mind , about my dad and about Jesus and about aliens taking over the … |
| 17 | They have been too ready to use one or other of the clashing theses as occasion served , without troubling to bring them into intelligible relation . |
| 18 | Most of these mountains can be seen on a walk to the watershed of Glen Nevis , but foreshortening robs them of distinctive summits . |
| 19 | Gardner Heidrick , like Sydney Boyden , originally came from Booz , Allen & Hamilton , having joined them in 1951 ; John Struggles , also like Boyden , had been Vice-president of the mail-order house Montgomery Ward . |
| 20 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 21 | by saying restrict them to three you get the best three they can think of |
| 22 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 23 | Having been knocked out of the Tennents Scottish Cup by the Rugby Park side and after failing to beat them in three previous league meetings , there was a distinct edge to Raith 's play on Saturday . |
| 24 | They will go , for example , into their final qualifying match against the West Indies in Gwalior on 27 October with the record of having beaten them in nine of their previous 10 one-day meetings . |
| 25 | Philips kept their ownership of the buildings and equipment used in the preparation and serving of the food , but made them available to ISS without charge ( while undertaking to maintain them in good order ) and Philips even paid for the electricity , water and telephone costs involved in the canteen operation and for the removal of waste . |
| 26 | For one thing , the British people at that stage of history were not regarded as a nation still reliant on divine approval for their acts , and for another , they did not have any ancient writings purporting to endow them with territorial rights . |
| 27 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 28 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 29 | This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions . |
| 30 | The Blox sweated over their respective winches and tillers , scowling at the logs , trying to crank them past nine by sheer will power . |