Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 2 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 3 | The courses are aimed at senior management and are intended to provide them with the knowledge and skills to exploit AIT effectively in their business . |
| 4 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 5 | Agencies are given budgets and are expected to use them in the most efficient way possible . |
| 6 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 7 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 8 | If students in the 1990s have difficulty in distinguishing all the political parties and coalitions that sprang up in Petrograd after the February Revolution , how could a peasant in 1917 be expected to assimilate them in the place of the Tsar , who at least represented a more easily understood form of political authority ? |
| 9 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 10 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 11 | On that Sunday evening Lady Eleanor was instructed to meet them outside the Galilee Gate . |
| 12 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 13 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 14 | Cacheris had sought to reassure them over the guarantees of civil liberties governing trials in the USA . |
| 15 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 16 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 17 | Vital economic issues like infrastructure , employment , tourism , and retailing are also covered , but an attempt is made to address them within the context of sustainability . |
| 18 | They say they have obtained my name and address from an agency : clearly they have decided to market them in the North-East in a big way . ’ |
| 19 | ( d ) Recognise the medium of the message — for example , the style , language , form or mode of expression may in themselves be of importance , and some attempt should be made to convey them in the precis . |
| 20 | These contributions are not shown in official statistics of educational expenditure , but in 1990 an attempt was made to quantify them by the Mail on Sunday , which commissioned a survey of a representative sample of primary schools by the National Foundation for Educational Research . |
| 21 | ‘ Soliciting … she was known to have men at her house and was seen to stop them in the street . |
| 22 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 23 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |
| 24 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 25 | and they 've got to sell them on the waiting list |
| 26 | If the products are high quality , customers who have been persuaded to buy them by the advertising campaign will continue to buy , and the increase in sales will be long-lasting . |
| 27 | If we confine attention to the 8 samples on which at least 15 individual determinations were made , the R range narrows to 0.35–0.95% , confirming that some of these rocks were formerly sufficiently deeply buried to put them into the oil-generating window . |
| 28 | We hypothesized that heads would have tended to draw them to the attention of their more senior colleagues in the first instance and that the booklets might not subsequently have been passed on to the ‘ rank and file ’ . |
| 29 | You 've got to put them in the order so you can see him , but the other person ca n't |
| 30 | The ambiguous status of blacks , as neither invaders nor indigenous Americans , caused some controversy but it was agreed to keep them within the overall campaign . |