Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] them [prep] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is still a passive role and , while many major figures in sport express a sense of responsibility for black youth , none actively encourage or discourage them from following their examples . |
| 2 | That is a fairly complicated question , which may confuse people and prevent them from seeing our present need clearly . |
| 3 | Thus the common aim of both legal mechanisms is to force managers to maximize profits for their company and prevent them from maximizing their own utility . |
| 4 | ‘ It is shocking that Unionists should attempt to use bullying tactics to instill fear into staff and stop them from voicing what they believed to be genuine concerns . ’ |
| 5 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |
| 6 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 7 | It is BP 's policy to employ suitably qualified disabled people and to help them in overcoming their handicaps at work . |
| 8 | We 're saying , we 're trying to help you by raising this money , erm it 's not sort of lecturing them or anything , we 're trying to focus on communities and empower them by giving them money for projects they want to happen , it 's not anything we 've decided . |
| 9 | They claimed that Philip III of France , his court and his officers had recently ( a modico tempore ) hindered and troubled them by citing them before other courts — not only the Paris Parlement , but the court of the French seneschal of Périgord . |
| 10 | It will also frustrate the operators , and discourage them from using it , so that the system falls into disrepute and founders . |
| 11 | I will personally see them all myself and talk them into offering us their business again . ’ |
| 12 | Since colours can vary slightly , it 's important to buy all the tiles you need at once to ensure that they 're from the same batch ; it 's also a good idea to unpack and mix them before fixing them , to even out any colour variations . |
| 13 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 14 | Some girls do n't even want to ask in case their parents get angry and ban them from seeing their boyfriends . |
| 15 | I respectively , to the anions and cations of solids and free them by neutralizing their charge ; water is thus a highly effective solvent . |
| 16 | I saw the way you had all the time in the world to chat to the patients in Santa Barbara , and help them without charging anything . |
| 17 | We 'll do a Pygmalion on you and you can go back to the hospital and charm them into letting your dad out . ’ |
| 18 | In both countries , undoubtedly one of the goals of what the United States euphemistically called ‘ low-intensity conflict ’ was to hamper and discredit the revolutionary movements ' ability to deliver services to their peoples , and to involve them in changing their lives . |
| 19 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 20 | ‘ The Parliamentary system is n't there to give people a say in how the country is run but to delude them into thinking they have some power . |
| 21 | The House had passed legislation in 1989 ( effective from January 1991 ) to prohibit the receipt of honoraria by its members , but compensating them by raising their salaries . |