Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] them [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 3 | As new treatments and technologies proliferate and new needs are identified these demands escalate , but even as early as 1954 , the then Minister for Health , Enoch Powell , discovered that it became a " positive ethical duty for ( providers ) to beseige and bombard the government and force or shame them into providing more money … and then more again " ( Powell 1966 ) . |
| 4 | The cowering patrons were pulling silver crucifixes from their pockets and holding them between trembling fingers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then home , at speed , to pull several garments from her wardrobe and consider them with mounting irritation . |
| 8 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 9 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 10 | SHORTLY after Aisling Rodgers was born a woman approached her parents and accused them of pouring scalding water over the baby . |
| 11 | Among the solutions proposed at the conference were increased emphasis on sustainable logging and the production of finished wood products , a halt to exports of raw logs , retraining loggers and employing them on repairing damaged forests and rivers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | European mercenaries ruling the Comoros Islands expelled 11 foreign correspondents after seizing their notebooks , film and cassette tapes and accusing them of inciting anti-government demonstrations , said one of the reporters . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His view was that Hollywood could never make such a picture ‘ simply because in all America you could hardly collect a hundred actors and put them in a picture and keep them from acting ’ . |
| 16 | He drew their attention to the route map on the opposite wall and set them to counting how long it took between stops , a favourite exercise that was considered by the twins to be the height of intellectual prowess but risked serious brain damage to everyone within hearing distance . |
| 17 | It 's more of a trick to see if we can get artistic freedom within a business structure — to see if we can create things and sell them without charging five times our cost . ’ |
| 18 | In March of the following year , when the feuding between the UDA and the UVF reached the point of tit-for-tat assassination , Paisley called on Protestants to withdraw all support from the paramilitaries and accused them of committing crimes ‘ just as heinous and hellish as those of the IRA ’ . |
| 19 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 20 | In areas where armed secessionist groups are active , women face rape and torture to extract information about their relatives and to deter them from giving shelter to members of armed opposition groups . |
| 21 | The legislation , which had been opposed by the Chinese authorities , aimed to give security to business people , civil servants and other professionals in Hong Kong and to dissuade them from emigrating before 1997 . |
| 22 | She was perfectly genuine in her feelings but expressing them by playing a role — I think maybe Bette Davis nobly renouncing a married lover . |
| 23 | It did not intend , it said , to replace any existing service but to complement them by providing services where there were none . |
| 24 | Erm do you erm drive after people and stop them from driving fast ? |
| 25 | That is a fairly complicated question , which may confuse people and prevent them from seeing our present need clearly . |
| 26 | It is BP 's policy to employ suitably qualified disabled people and to help them in overcoming their handicaps at work . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | I respectively , to the anions and cations of solids and free them by neutralizing their charge ; water is thus a highly effective solvent . |
| 29 | Quote : ‘ Conservation of lichens oftens means site preservation , identification of old trees and saving them from felling ’ . |
| 30 | Competition for mates would tend to partition males among such parties and sexual selection would tend to favour males that retained a harem of females and assisted them in rearing young . |