Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it stops you having to hit them with a brick . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 7 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 8 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 9 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 10 | Both types have snap-on terminals used to connect them to a detector in a similar way to a PP3 . |
| 11 | Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria . |
| 12 | So it 's not too ridiculous to compare them to a cross between Marc Almond , Nick Cave and The Chameleons . |
| 13 | These groups are known by a variety of names , but the central idea is to bring together a small number of people who have certain interests or characteristics in common and to interview them as a group . |
| 14 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 15 | They acquired a wider notoriety five months later , when de Gaulle decided to champion them in a press conference ( 4 February 1965 ) . |
| 16 | From long experience Blanche knew it was pointless to confront most interviewees , foolish to drive them into a corner . |
| 17 | As she notes , ‘ economic rationality led in neighbouring villages to the creation of rules of cultivation which sufficiently resembled one another for us to classify them as a system ’ ( p. 273 ) . |
| 18 | Pupils should be well prepared , and it is advisable to issue them with a guidance sheet that can be shown to the staff . |
| 19 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 20 | I mean you may have to support them through a sort of bad patch , but the idea is to erm get them so that they can look after themselves , you know . |
| 21 | When planting species of this group , it is better to plant them in a cluster or bunch . |
| 22 | That is , unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table . |
| 23 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |
| 24 | As we have seen , the operational balances are used for clearing purposes between the banks and to provide them with a source of liquidity . |
| 25 | The other 140 had to rely in varying degrees on transferred votes to provide them with a quota or something approaching it . |
| 26 | Three-quarters of all Germans now believe that the government has a duty to provide them with a job and a house . |
| 27 | There may be economies in using higher educational facilities as locations for events and academics as consultants ; and some of these resources may be cheaper than they would be if the company had to provide them as a call on the payload . |
| 28 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 29 | Associative and cognitive theories present two major examples of different approaches to the study of learning , and although they differ in very many respects it is possible to synthesise them in a way that offers guidance for teachers . |
| 30 | Do you think it 's safe to sell them as a job lot ? ’ |