Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 2 | And it stops you having to hit them with a brick . |
| 3 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 4 | You do n't even have to hit them off the ground . |
| 5 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 6 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 7 | The women who waited to greet them outside their huts wore bracelets of tin on their wrists and ankles , but otherwise their only other garment was a long dark cloth wrapped round the hips , which left their jutting , dark-nippled breasts uncovered . |
| 8 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
| 9 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 10 | The governor himself stood waiting to greet them beneath a large , gilt-framed portrait of the Emperor Napoleon . |
| 11 | Oh God they 'd look macha I 'd have to strap them under my arms ! |
| 12 | I had to strap them to my bicycle , which is why they look a bit battered . ’ |
| 13 | The Abbey is now planning a fifth mailshot to alert them to their windfalls . |
| 14 | Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students . |
| 15 | She recommended that a meeting with Social Services would be helpful to alert them to the ‘ dynamics ’ of this family and to advise them that ‘ as professionals we were anxious that we had not managed to engage and intervene within the family and explore deficits in the parenting role ’ . |
| 16 | Moreover , these activities are interactions between students , and as such may fail to alert them to the choice and ordering of information produced by native speakers . |
| 17 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 18 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 19 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 20 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 21 | Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after . |
| 22 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 23 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 24 | ‘ They should change the law to include them with dogs like pit bulls which have to wear a muzzle . |
| 25 | As far as heads were concerned , coordinators needed from them a properly negotiated version of the Authority 's job specification , support for the difficult tasks they were required to undertake , and a preparedness to include them within the team of senior staff involved in the development of policy . |
| 26 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 27 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 28 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 29 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 30 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |