Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 2 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 3 | Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth . |
| 4 | So when you eyeball someone and arrange to eyeball them over the C.B. you do not meet them somewhere like your house because you do n't want anyone who might be listening to turn up at your house so you meet them somewhere like the park or somewhere like that and then take them to your house if you wish . |
| 5 | In 1860 the foreign secretary urged British diplomats not to use unnecessarily " this very costly channel of communication " , and until at least the end of the nineteenth century the ministers in China and Japan , to save money , were still guided , except in serious emergencies , by despatches which took five weeks to reach them via the Suez Canal , or four if they were sent across Canada . |
| 6 | According to Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , the powerful speaker of the Iranian parliament , ‘ The Americans started contacting us through scores of channels begging us to help them in the Lebanon ; through Japan , our neighbouring countries like Pakistan , our embassies , the United Nations and numerous arms brokers . ’ |
| 7 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 8 | But at £2 each , they are expensive and last year the Department of Health ordered GPs not to prescribe them on the NHS . |
| 9 | In Dewsbury the Council got the magistrates to cooperate in reporting pubs which gave sweets to children under thirteen in order to entice them inside the Wigan Council got the Home Secretary to the local police force . |
| 10 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 11 | Nimbus says that when the superscalars become available , cloners will simply have to swap them for the Cypress part . |
| 12 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
| 13 | She immediately fell into conversation with Jack as they waited to board the mini-bus that stood in the centre of the courtyard , ready to transport them to the Parc de Prafance with its famous forest of bamboo . |
| 14 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 15 | Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US . |
| 16 | But after the wars were over the government cleared off the backlog of prisoners by arranging , in the 1718 Act , to pay a subsidy to merchants to take them across the Atlantic , and it also gave the judges the right to impose a sentence of up to 7 years transportation . |
| 17 | Newman told the cab driver to take them to the Brussels Hilton . |
| 18 | Their findings disturbed the High Loremaster sufficiently for him to take them to the Phoenix King . |
| 19 | He stalked off to find the airport bus to take them to the SNCF railway station at Roissy , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him as best he could . |
| 20 | Several times a week throughout the cold war British pilots scrambled to intercept them over the North Sea . |
| 21 | Mummy did try to help them just a teeny weeny bit cos hyacinths , he 's going to show them at the Airdrie Town Hall , Bobby . |
| 22 | They were required to adopt statutes at a constituent congress , and to register them with the USSR Justice Ministry ( or the equivalent republican Ministry , depending on how widely the new association was to operate ) . |
| 23 | Some guidance was provided to teachers completing the questionnaire in order to familiarise them with the HMI eight areas of experience and to agree meanings of terms such as ‘ concept ’ and ‘ skill ’ . |