Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] they [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
| 2 | And carry them , either carry them , or push them on a two-wheeled trolley , all through the round the lace market to 's , and various other And if I were lucky , and the 's van was going round the lace market , and I 'd got three or four parcels , I used to go with little Tommy and his horse and van , round the lace market , and he was delivering dress goods then . |
| 3 | You should be able to buy these books at a bookshop or borrow them from a library . |
| 4 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 5 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 6 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 7 | But these are not just shoelaces — use them to be different ; plait , twist , braid or cord them for a variety of looks and purposes , from bracelets , necklaces , hair bands , bag cords or to brighten up a pair of trainers . |
| 8 | Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ? |
| 9 | Dispose of dirty nappies by flushing them down the toilet , or put them in a sealed plastic bag . |
| 10 | Drain well in a colander and divide them among individual bowls or put them in a large soup tureen . |
| 11 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
| 12 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 13 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 14 | With all or the exercises in this book , it 's important to write down your ideas , or speak them into a tape recorder . |
| 15 | Or give them to a nearby playgroup or primary school , which will welcome any old cards that the children can cut up for collages . |
| 16 | This program is essentially for anyone who has textual information such as product descriptions , catalogues and memos and then find , view or print them by a keyword search . |
| 17 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
| 18 | Mount them on or recess them into a ceiling or down the side of a wall . |
| 19 | We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful . |
| 20 | Additionally the ADC-10 can perform many functions that are only currently available on expensive digital storage oscilloscope such as saving waveforms to disk , or sending them to a printer . |
| 21 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 22 | Or contact them for a list of galleries at the Art Department , Shrewsbury School , Kingsland , Shrewsbury , Shropshire SY3 7BA . |
| 23 | If the plaster is still in reasonable condition , have the walls lined with bitumen paper or brush them with a waterproofing liquid , adding battens treated with a preservative , and hang with plasterboard to make a new surface in front of the old one . |
| 24 | You can ask them either just as they are or use them as a basis for formulating questions that are particularly related to the job for which you are being interviewed . |
| 25 | Rob Grunsell encourages teachers to adapt his materials to their own needs or use them as a source of ideas for devising their own training . |
| 26 | Under the CCA 1974 , there is a recognition that legal rights and duties of a consumer should not necessarily turn upon whether the consumer has borrowed money to buy goods , bought them on credit , or acquired them under a hire purchase contract ( ie the traditional distinction drawn between lender credit and vendor credit ) . |
| 27 | When the carrier acknowledges that he holds for and on behalf of the buyer , e.g. by accepting and acting upon the buyer 's instructions not to convey the goods as far as their original destination or to convey them to a further destination , or |
| 28 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 29 | Has the Prime Minister seen the prospectus from Pathfinders Repossessions plc , which is a company which proposes to buy repossessed homes at auction and then flog them off or rent them at a huge profit ? |
| 30 | Small touches like presenting objects wrapped up , or putting them inside a " feel bag " and asking pupils to guess what they are can add spice to the exercise . |