Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And then having to remember to unearth them before the day ! |
| 2 | British Waterways and the Ministry of Agriculture have been approached by fishing clubs in the region to help rid them of the menace which is depleting fish stocks in the canal . |
| 3 | In a drift away from the Auld Alliance , leading magnates appealed to the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth of England to help rid them of the French . |
| 4 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
| 5 | By creating and maintaining institutions that deny feelings of warmth and tenderness , by encouraging male competitive and aggressive styles of human encounter , prisons are killing off in prisoners those qualities most likely to help re-establish them in the community . |
| 6 | Players were encouraged to exaggerate the portamento and vibrato features of their instruments to help distinguish them from the wind sections ( 11 ) . |
| 7 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 8 | Care must be taken when using these servos to avoid stalling them against the end-stops as large currents will be drawn by the servo amplifier that may eventually cause permanent damage . |
| 9 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 10 | A total of 350 visitors ( 97% of all respondents ) replied to question asking them about the way in which they had come to hear of the Library 's exhibitions . |
| 11 | WITH a single goal to score to put them into the next round of the European Cup , only Scots south of the border doubted Leeds United 's ability to conclude the issue in their favour . |
| 12 | You do not need to send your releases to everyone who might be interested if this is likely to delay getting them into the post ; that can always be done the next morning . |
| 13 | General practitioners are in a position to plan because they have survived many changes , and to fail to reappoint them on the basis of a local health policy ‘ whim ’ conflicts with individual patients ' rights in choosing their own general practitioner . |
| 14 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 15 | The till , the till locks , and erm we used to assemble those as well and er it was a fortunate one who used to do the lacquering , there was a big er big erm heated table and er it was easy work to do the lacquering you see and you used to have to put them on the top of the heated tower to dry before they were packed to go away , but erm they were , it was a hard place to work for but er the one son Mr he was always in London and er this is n't being recorded now is it , is it ? |
| 16 | It is indeed a salutary ( and exceedingly difficult ) exercise to attempt to analyse them in the security of a solitary armchair . |
| 17 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 18 | If the purchaser himself intends to dispose subsequently of these assets he will prefer to have acquired them at the higher base cost to minimise capital gains or corporation tax on a subsequent disposal . |
| 19 | Stalin had been hoping that British and American forces would be used to create a ‘ second front ’ on the main continent of Europe and by now he had convinced himself that the United States and Britain were deliberately delaying the creation of the ‘ second front ’ so that the Russian forces would be weakened by allowing the major part of the German forces to continue to oppose them on the eastern front . |
| 20 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |