Example sentences of "they [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome is that fox hunts will need a licence from the Ministry of Agriculture before they can temporarily block setts to prevent foxes hiding in them during a hunt , or to dig out foxes which succeed in entering a sett . |
| 2 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 3 | And top fitness consultant Martica Heaner is putting them through a walking , aerobics and swimming plan . |
| 4 | ‘ This project is a good example of how AMEC can offer a total solution to clients by integrating the skills of different parts of the group and focusing them through a bespoke joint venture company , ’ he said . |
| 5 | A JEALOUS husband stabbed his wife and her toyboy lover to death after spying on them through a chink in the curtains . |
| 6 | And Melanie had spied on them through a keyhole , and would never get closer to them than the keyhole in the door behind which they lived . |
| 7 | The youth led them through a brick archway into a second room overflowing with cardboard boxes , many of them open to reveal their contents . |
| 8 | This enables softening to be done simply and economically with waters of a wide range of hardness by passing them through a bed of the granulated material . |
| 9 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
| 10 | If you were ordering hundreds and hundreds of these would you put , express them through a parcel delivery service ? |
| 11 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 12 | Carter lead them through a doorway onto a staircase . |
| 13 | McAdam 's system , which involved his surveyors checking the size of stones by passing them through a two-inch ring , was soon adopted by the turnpike trusts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After a lot of pestering I was allowed to speak to two friends who had come to court with me , and I was appalled by having to speak to them through a glass and metal grille thing . |
| 16 | I suppose you could if you put them through a junction box or something . |
| 17 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 18 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 19 | Boil them slowly till they are all to pieces ; then squeeze and strain them through a bag . |
| 20 | They were so transparent and thin , you could put them through a wedding ring . |
| 21 | In this situation the distance/number of links between the pair could be calculated from the ‘ shortest path ’ connecting them through a sequence of intermediate linked probes . |
| 22 | Students may enter complex calculations from sources such as passed examination papers and the computer will take them through a solution step by step . |
| 23 | To read them through a lens drawn from another context , for example that of later church history , is to impose a construction on the material for which there is no warrant . |
| 24 | It 's what we used to do if we took them off a line and got them cleaning up , it 's a token tow pound ten a day . |
| 25 | ‘ To tell them about a misunderstanding ? ’ |
| 26 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 27 | He went to Mr Vigo for them about a month back . ’ |
| 28 | One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town , and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body . |
| 29 | thought that he could create an advantage by shipping some Russian rocket missiles to his friend , Fidel Castro , in the island of Cuba , so that he would be able to use them as a threat against the continent of North America , a comparatively short distance away . |
| 30 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |