Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |
| 2 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 3 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 4 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 5 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 6 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 7 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 8 | Hunter , Joyce , and Redruth were told what was happening , and were less surprised that we expected them to be . |
| 9 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 10 | The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other . |
| 11 | The two-seater training planes — to go into service from 1994 — have night vision equipment allowing them to be used on a battle frontline . |
| 12 | The Management Information Base semantics have been clarified so that MIB I and MIB II extensions , which typically reside at different locations in the MIB tree , can be given private parameters and object associations , allowing them to be recognised by a single Management Information Base browser . |
| 13 | If so , Britain would be in the position of forbidding its own manufacturers from making unsafe goods while allowing them to be imported . |
| 14 | Resits , as opposed to fail grades , may be awarded to students , allowing them to be reassessed without retaking the complete module before the next meeting of the examinations committee . |
| 15 | The care with which they examined and photographed those bushes before allowing them to be removed brought Paviour quivering to the spot . |
| 16 | This allows expectational effects to be incorporated in the consumption , investment and capital flow equations , providing an indication of the importance of such effects in the regulation of the economy , and allowing them to be taken into account in policy design . |
| 17 | A commonly demonstrated feature of the system is the real time manipulation of video windows , allowing them to be re-sized , zoomed , tiled and shrunk using extremely simple control commands . |
| 18 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 19 | They will build special buses with a pneumatic suspension allowing them to be lowered to the ground for the easy loading of wheelchairs . |
| 20 | After the game , Hungarian officials lodged a complaint against the Newcastle team , specifically Gallacher , accusing them of being drunk and disorderly . |
| 21 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 22 | He wrote a series of letters to Pepys , Locke and other friends , accusing them of being atheists and Catholics . |
| 23 | It is not simply that it is a vital matter for some small group of people ( as some may think them to be ) called ‘ Christian feminists ’ who would reconcile their feminism with their Christian faith . |
| 24 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 25 | I shall mention some of the issues to which the hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) referred , although there seemed to be a lack of logic in his remarks because he cheered the Government on while encouraging them to be careful . |
| 26 | erm because after all there 's not point in having these gradings and stars and whatever if people do n't a ) know about them and b ) trust them to be independent . |
| 27 | Rough was lucky to miss out on one of Scottish football 's most infamous scandals , when he missed the taxi that whisked five if his international team-mates to the notorious bender in Copenhagen which led them to being banned for life . |
| 28 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 29 | The employers " interests led them to be " nationalist " , arguing that to safeguard their share of the market and to maintain the Scottish capital as a printing centre , they had to keep down costs , or go out of business . |
| 30 | If a person has become disabled through no fault of their own and they 're not going to be provided with a benefit which would compensate them for being out of work , they will suffer enormously . ’ |