Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 3 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 4 | After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course . |
| 5 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 6 | They grow up unbalanced , and need only minor frustrations or the stimulus of pornography to tip them into an orgy of violence against women and girls . |
| 7 | Historically it has been convenient to explore them as an evolution from the works of Euclid . |
| 8 | THREE women widowed in the Gulf war have been told by Government officials that they will not set aside money from the publicly-donated Gulf Trust to help them with an education fund for their children . |
| 9 | Their owners plan to fire them at an enemy 's military forces rather than against cities or factories . |
| 10 | To oblige them to belong to a national group was as likely to imprison them in an identity from which they wanted to escape as to liberate them . |
| 11 | So it becomes a relatively straightforward matter to list them as an inventory . |
| 12 | Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq . |
| 13 | Both of these people may be too senior for a discussion on props , but they have the most influence and you might be able to interest them in an idea for future use . |
| 14 | Normally , developers paying a barrister to represent them at an inquiry must pick up the tab . |
| 15 | Literary representation enters a complex negotiation with history , a debate about ‘ things ’ ( institutions , actions , events ) and the words used to name them with an awareness that both the names and the things may be otherwise . |
| 16 | To regard them as an example of a clear-cut binary opposition between good and evil , or rationality and irrationality fails to engage with the kinds of investments which they actually entail . |
| 17 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 18 | Teign Machine Knitters welcome visitors to the area who are missing their knitting to join them for an evening . |
| 19 | Be here to collect them in an hour . |
| 20 | You have to take them to an expert to be sure . |
| 21 | Acorn 's policy has been to buy up sound but somewhat shabby family-owned hotels as and when opportunity offers , and to renovate them to an extent consistent with the company 's ‘ image ’ of old-fashioned comfort . |
| 22 | Etchings were sent to a printer to make some impressions and someone surreptitiously made copies which he passed on to the defendant who intended to display them in an exhibition which the public could attend on payment of an admission charge . |
| 23 | In the case of music examinations there are doubtless some teachers who keep their pupils back and refuse to enter them for an examination unless they are virtually certain that they will succeed . |
| 24 | Amnesty International is working throughout 1992 to raise awareness about human rights violations against the indigenous peoples of the Americas and is striving to bring them to an end . |
| 25 | Those of us who live and work in Northern Ireland would say that the feeling on the part of the community about bringing these matters to an end is not the result of any war-weary or defeatist feeling but because we want to bring them to an end and restore peace , and it is a very strong feeling . |