Example sentences of "and [verb] them [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action .
2 Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make .
3 How far this will work depends on how far we can inject into cross-curricular work the essence of our ideas and make them genuine focuses of our work ( and not peripheral elements ) .
4 Would it be a proper recognition of the quality of their teaching and administrative staff to accept their judgment of academic standards absolutely and make them mature degree awarding bodies ?
5 The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole .
6 For example , they have argued against almost every EC directive which would have improved women 's poor position in the work force , increased their opportunities and given them increased freedom to work .
7 We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things .
8 Commonly held ideas restrict the social role and status of older people , structure their expectations of themselves , prevent them achieving their potential and deny them equal opportunities .
9 It has also pledged the pair to establishing NT-on-Alpha as ‘ a premier RISC-based systems platform ’ and has them promising machines ‘ that could fundamentally change the face of computing ’ as we know it .
10 He would often ask about Dinah and his family , and send them affectionate messages ; Nathan passed these on to Dinah , but he did not think she spoke of their father to the children ; it was better not .
11 We 've had a good living out of it but if that same system has brought them on their feet , you know and built them nice homes er right they 've delved into Company 's House now , all the dirty water not dirty water all the whatsit has come up how much they 've drawn from these quarries .
12 Nor could he get the Scots and their French allies to the negotiating table ; the French publicly declared for the Scots , and promised them military help if they needed it .
13 Can we expect individuals to enjoy equal rights and participation in their social lives and yet work under an authoritarian structure at the workplace that gives them little responsibility and allows them little scope for participation ?
14 In cases of mild illness , such as coughs and colds , often all you can do is let children rest and give them over-the-counter medication to relieve pain or fever and help them to sleep .
15 And er , Margot was behind the and they were painting her house and somebody fell and she had to go and give them artificial respiration or something did n't she ?
16 Fed up of seeing a box of if I collected those tins and put them Back door open or not ?
17 I also take billy kids for a pal near me and rear them free range with lots of love and cuddles .
18 Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door .
19 Since the Kaszubes lacked any political organisation or ambition and had no recognition for their language , hardly any literature of their own and barely any sense of a common Kaszubian identity , the Poles thought of the Kaszubians as a joke and paid them little heed .
20 NGOs have also caused a brain drain from the NHS by recruiting skilled Mozambicans and paying them high salaries .
21 The completion of this work would increase the convenience of searching the General Catalogue for researchers and save them valuable time , and it would also create savings in time for Library staff .
22 He settles all their Mess bills and buys them lavish presents .
23 I used to go into the rolling mills and watch them rolling steel sheets and over about half an hour there , this was Saturday after Saturday after Saturday I used to do this .
24 We need the publishing skills which really can penetrate through the powerful myths and barriers which surround the role of books in children 's minds , and give them real playground credibility .
25 Dr George Carey called on parents to accept responsibility for the way their children grow up and give them moral guidance .
26 Of course , there are changes in the public sector , changes in organisation — indeed government finds it an almost irresistible temptation to tinker with its machinery , merge departments , break them up and give them new titles .
27 We must encourage them to use paint intelligently and give them suitable colours .
28 First of all we offer a good a service as possible , we try to get to know the individuals , and help them and give them individual advice .
29 Fabbio did his homework among the downsizing-bent corporates which gave him the idea for Dazel : exploit the need for managing information in the network environment and give them instantaneous links to fax , printers , voice and E-mail .
30 Trustee John Routly said : ‘ The Trust has , therefore , proposed to the '64 Company that when this Amending Order is made the Ffestiniog would enable the '64 Company to construct the Pen-y-Mount-Pont Creoser section and give them running powers over that section .
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