Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 2 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 3 | ‘ If he shares his uncle 's hostility towards the female sex he might very well be prepared to treat them with similar contempt ! ’ |
| 4 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 5 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 6 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 7 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 8 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 9 | The doors are tough and durable , and they require almost no maintenance , a quick wash down being all that is required to restore them to pristine condition . , , . |
| 10 | The Queen added that 1993 would bring new challenges and called on people to resolve to meet them with fresh hope . |
| 11 | But now these beginnings had become something of a joke between them and the congregation had learned to accept them with amused tolerance . |
| 12 | The pictures resisted his efforts to shuffle them into chronological order . |
| 13 | However , for patients in their forties it is usually a simple matter to establish them on similar insulin regimens to the Type I patients . |
| 14 | Other forms of the occult , I believe , certainly mislead and abuse youngsters spiritually and mentally , but it is unjust to accuse them of physical abuse . |
| 15 | Because students are taking two qualifications at one , it is very important to provide them with easily-understood information at appropriate stages of the programme . |
| 16 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 17 | Because it is subject to the conditions of carriage that we accept their business and therefore we have to provide them with written information . |
| 18 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 19 | In these sessions they practised their kicking and wheeling ; John brought in a sergeant-major to train them in military marching . |
| 20 | In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced . |
| 21 | This topic is meant to improve pupils ' awareness of ‘ danger ’ areas in houses and to inform them of basic safety measures and precautions which should be taken at home . |
| 22 | The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22 that those who had fled from countries where rebel forces had attempted to coerce them into military service were not entitled to political asylum . |
| 23 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 24 | The deal means the French bank will get some of the money it is owed , Madagascar will get debt relief and the Missouri garden will be able to increase its efforts to conserve rare plants , which include training botanists and collecting plants to screen them for medicinal value . |
| 25 | Three days later , on 23rd. , the Stukas returned to the skies over Malta , and on this occasion the defences were able to engage them without undue fighter interference , although Plt.Off . |
| 26 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 27 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 28 | The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision . |
| 29 | The guidelines require that new homes , shops and workplaces be planned and sited in ways that encourage people to reach them by public transport , bicycle or on foot . |
| 30 | Give winter cauliflowers and spring cabbage a feed of nitrogenous fertiliser , if not already done , to spur them into fresh growth and increase their size and tenderness . |