Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ?
2 And it stops you having to hit them with a brick .
3 Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head .
4 You do n't even have to hit them off the ground .
5 Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores .
6 Moreover , these activities are interactions between students , and as such may fail to alert them to the choice and ordering of information produced by native speakers .
7 She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers .
8 Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students .
9 Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after .
10 You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see .
11 As far as heads were concerned , coordinators needed from them a properly negotiated version of the Authority 's job specification , support for the difficult tasks they were required to undertake , and a preparedness to include them within the team of senior staff involved in the development of policy .
12 Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them .
13 He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too .
14 We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out .
15 Incidentally , if you have any items which you think would be of interest to the Residents , your scribe would be happy to include them in the Newsletter .
16 When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey .
17 It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security .
18 Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy .
19 First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors .
20 The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver .
21 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 :
22 ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’
23 Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend .
24 I would like to see them for the Falls .
25 I would like to see them for the Shankill .
26 ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said .
27 ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December .
28 I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend
29 The public would still pay to see them at the cinema .
30 ‘ I 've to see them at the bank shortly — there 's that Buttering to be fixed , and no money for it wi'out they 'll give me a loan . ’
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