Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 2 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 3 | The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States . |
| 4 | clients are , are tapped into it , and we should be able to communicate with them at the press of a button . |
| 5 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 6 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 7 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 8 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 9 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 10 | For those theses which were read , and were subsequently not cited , Kochen 's fourth alternative contains some of the possible reasons for non-citation , but there may be others , and it is not possible to choose between them from the evidence currently available . |
| 11 | She clattered with the grids , rather excessively he thought , twisting round to reach for them beyond the bowl of soapy water . |
| 12 | It is important that the children should be able to play freely in this way , and again although it might be appropriate to talk with them about the materials beforehand or afterwards , if a model has been completed , a great deal can be learnt simply by observation . |
| 13 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 14 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 15 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 16 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 17 | They were , indeed , a sorry and sadly bedraggled lot , so covered in diesel and smoke that it was quite impossible to discriminate among them on the basis of age , sex or nationality . |
| 18 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 19 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
| 20 | Come to us , God of justice , that we may hear the cries of the dispossessed in every land , calling us , like Jesus the healer , to walk with them in the search for justice and mercy . |
| 21 | Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side . |
| 22 | As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett . |
| 23 | But the polyptychs ' data , even if it 's unwise to generalise from them to the whole kingdom , may still be taken to show a relatively dense , if patchily distributed , population in the area they best cover , namely , that between the rivers Seine and Rhine . |
| 24 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
| 25 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 26 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
| 27 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 28 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 29 | There are encouraging signs that our experiments in communication are starting to yield some useful results and we intend to continue with them in the future . |
| 30 | Their choice to negotiate for them over the property group 's restructuring is the American financier who , after a colourful career in the more maverick corners of the Euromarkets , agreed to buy the Marshalls money-broking business from British & Commonwealth but failed to find the cash . |