Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] them [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 2 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 3 | During the Falklands War , Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments , and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions . |
| 4 | The battles of Penselwood and Sherston were apparently inconclusive , although hard-fought in the case of the latter , but Edmund was able to relieve London , driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford . |
| 5 | We put the Wallabies under a lot of pressure and harried them into making a lot of mistakes . |
| 6 | This is the argument that women 's domestic responsibilities get in the way of their paid work , and prevent them from taking the opportunities for higher-paid work . |
| 7 | • Offering midweek packages at competitive rates • Creating an autumn-winter weekend break package and Christmas programme , and promoting them by sending a mailshot to all past guests . |
| 8 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 9 | Because they 're frightened we will reveal their rottenness to the people , they 're frightened that we will reveal the truth to the people , and once the truth is revealed to the people they wo n't be able to cow them and keep them from making a free society , a society of human beings . |
| 10 | A member of the Leeds ' band Hang The Dance , Roman Remeynes , contacted The Wedding Present after hearing the Ukrainian session and accused them of bastardising the music . |
| 11 | She was perfectly genuine in her feelings but expressing them by playing a role — I think maybe Bette Davis nobly renouncing a married lover . |
| 12 | Anti-military parents will allow their sons to join the Boy Scouts , but prohibit them from joining a Cadet Corps … |