Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] they the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My senior staff have already addressed a meeting of Citizens Advice representatives in Edinburgh and explained to them the Council Tax legislation . |
| 2 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 3 | He was a quiet , wise , friendly man who ran his hall with a minimum of rules and regulations , treating undergraduates as adults and impressing on them the need for courtesy and consideration in their dealings with one another , and with the domestic staff . |
| 4 | Contracts could be with a specialist unit outside the area , which would be able to keep its facility going by attracting patients needing that care and bringing with them the cash to pay for their operation . |
| 5 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 6 | I guess an inexperienced parent just does n't know what to do with these intruders in the nest , and disposes of them the only way it can . |
| 7 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 8 | They have seen Pop Will Eat Itself close up and seen in them the terrible cost of debauchery . |
| 9 | These new measurements were counted in two series of twelve with their poles at noon and midnight , and to differentiate between them the terms ante meridiem and post meridiem ( ‘ am ’ and ‘ pm ’ ) were coined . |
| 10 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 11 | The problems presented by the Hurufi heresy , which seems to have attracted the sultan himself , were more of a religious and social nature than a political one , and to deal with them the Mufti was called in . |
| 12 | A hundred years of missionary effort had failed utterly ; its only effect had been to confirm the Abyssinians in their attachment to their ancient faith and to sow in them the seeds of xenophobia . |
| 13 | I would take the train down the line where they would have to change at some junction and plead with them the cause of the Liverpool seamen . |
| 14 | It is a polled breed , closely related to the Swedish Mountain and the North Finnish and sharing with them the white colour-pointed coat cline . |
| 15 | If you made it and laid down them the the man that was doing it , he 'd only to lift that and give it a twine and on to the next . |
| 16 | But in the nature of things … " and here he twisted his red lips to signal and to share with them the perspectives of this operation " certain approaches have to be tentative and even apparently , ad hoc . |
| 17 | The adviser in charge of the inspection shall meet the head and teaching staff and discuss with them the aim of the inspection . |
| 18 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 19 | Beforehand he met a number of local farmers and discussed with them the problems that CAP , GATT and subsidies pose for agriculture in this country . |
| 20 | Only " estates and interests " in land are property , and carry with them the rights to exclusive use of the land and to transfer it . |
| 21 | I don " t speak Czech ( p. 72 ) ) reverse the Politeness Principle by emphasising his disagreement and carry with them the clear implication that he believes the captain to be lying . |
| 22 | It enables them to find a suitable assistant and agree with them the hours , times and tasks required . |
| 23 | Menelik accepted this and signed with them the Treaty of Uccialli . |
| 24 | To cancel unc to its lowest terms : Notice we neatly cross out the 18 and 27 and put above them the number of times 9 goes in to each . |
| 25 | Erbani , Lorieux and Carminati in the pack are no strangers to the international arena with 75 caps between them , but Fouroux and his assistant coach Daniel Dubroca hope that the French will show willingness and enthusiasm for battle and put behind them the inept and inexplicable performance witnessed at Strasbourg . |
| 26 | He was working in the parks just now so he was back in , and apparently he 'd had to go round and baby-sit for them the night before . |
| 27 | ‘ And I appeal to employers to look on our ex-service people and see in them the opportunity for the loyal , dedicated , hard-working men and women that they are . ’ |
| 28 | Upper- and middle-class Victorian men relied on working-class female prostitutes to satisfy their sexual appetites , while demanding purity of their wives and inflicting upon them the impossibly sentimentalized and saintly ideal of the Virgin Mother . |
| 29 | It is the Spirit who inspires Peter to withstand the rulers of Israel ( 4:8ff ) and proclaim to them the Messiahship of Jesus . |
| 30 | She does not , apparently , test her spellings by saying them as they look , but imposes upon them the correct pronunciation . |