Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 2 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 3 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 4 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 5 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 6 | In specifically educational matters , stress was laid on both initial and in-service training of teachers to attune them to the needs of ethnic minority groups and to improve their understanding of a multicultural approach to education . |
| 7 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 8 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
| 9 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 10 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 11 | The Kamchatkans , a people of eastern Siberia , used to employ the intestines of bears as face-masks to protect them from the glare of the sun ; and they used the sharpened shoulder-blade for cutting grass . |
| 12 | They come in three sizes complete with tweezers to put them on the fish . |
| 13 | In a statement issued on his behalf yesterday , the Labour leader , said : ‘ I am consulting with colleagues to inform them of the action which I propose to take in the wake of the election defeat . |
| 14 | Other sources of unease were the unfulfilled aspirations of the minority Shiite community , mostly concentrated in the region south of Baghdad , and the occcasional stirrings of the Communist Party which had gained strength during the Qasem period and become solidly represented in the army until efforts to purge them in the 1970s . |
| 15 | But there are cogent arguments for Mr Shekhar 's ‘ soft ’ approach : negotiating with militants helps fragment their ranks ; persuading them to take part in elections draws them into the constitutional process . |
| 16 | It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills . |
| 17 | But after the wars were over the government cleared off the backlog of prisoners by arranging , in the 1718 Act , to pay a subsidy to merchants to take them across the Atlantic , and it also gave the judges the right to impose a sentence of up to 7 years transportation . |
| 18 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 19 | ICI Pharmaceuticals had also written to doctors telling them about the serious reactions and deaths . |
| 20 | SCOTVEC has written to colleges reminding them of the availability of a devolved system of assessment for awards for which only one college provides the course . |
| 21 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 22 | He was refused permission to shut the bar at 1am but keep the club open until 2am , and made an announcement to clubbers telling them of the police decision . |
| 23 | As has already been mentioned , young children are particularly at risk , and they are dependent on adults to protect them from the potential dangers in their home environment . |
| 24 | He said a letter sent to competitors informing them of the restriction and threatening possible exclusion of wheelchairs from future London marathons if the rule was not adhered to should not have been sent . |
| 25 | It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain . |
| 26 | This time Marko believed the mysterious child ; he went to the king and asked for three hundred barrels of wine and three hundred barrels of brandy , and for oxen to drag them up the mountain and men to dam up the lake . |
| 27 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 28 | For centuries , bars of magnetite were used by sailors to guide them across the unvarying expanse of the oceans , and it is only fairly recently that manufactured substances have replaced this naturally occurring ore in compasses . |