Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was logic in this distinction ; for if the duties of a vassal were such as Fulbert defined them , then in fulfilling them the fidelis whose estates were close to those of his lord would have to make many sacrifices , while for one who lived several days ' journey away , not making a nuisance of himself would be a relatively painless matter . |
| 2 | West Indians began to troop off , only for Gower to wave them back since Terry , arm in sling beneath sweater , was returning . |
| 3 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 4 | Now the council is planning to put a bill through parliament to allow them to restrict winter grazing . |
| 5 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 6 | Their desire for re-election forces them to adopt strategies in which they are highly sensitive to pressure groups . |
| 7 | The birds are stocked at a rate of 5,000 per hectare in a fenced off pasture to protect them from foxes and other predators . |
| 8 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
| 9 | Has he for instance consulted them with their rights under the Tenants Charter ? |
| 10 | Did it make them stronger in their faith so that when they leave school and face the terrible temptation of the world , the fact that they danced on the altar during mass strengthen them against the temptation ? |
| 11 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 12 | Presumably the viewers ' discarded baked bean cans are not for actually building the intensive care units , but are to be recycled for money to fund them . |
| 13 | Either you stand outside your community , see them as non-Indians see them , which means , often enough , identifying with racist opinion , or you learn to hate people who say these things . |
| 14 | Retreat for marchers fleeing them was blocked by a cordon at the other end of Duke Street , where police also charged the demonstrators . |
| 15 | Schools , shut on April 9 after rioting rendered them unmanageable [ see p. 38135 ] , were ordered to reopen on May 6 but , in Lomé ( the capital ) at least , pupils boycotted classes . |
| 16 | Three wickets fell , though , in the first half hour after lunch to leave them wobbling at 61 for four . |
| 17 | This by no means commits them to the view that actions and attitudes are uncaused , merely to the more limited view that they are not caused by the properties of social wholes . |
| 18 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 19 | Close grazing encourages clovers ; repeated hay crops year after year depresses them . |
| 20 | And they 're ideal in kids room we 're gon na , we got , if we can get up after Christmas get them for Lee |
| 21 | Dunlop have been working hard over the winter and Rainey 's lap times during testing proves they 'll be right there . ’ |
| 22 | Never go to them , no I put these up for Anthony give them here , give it |
| 23 | However , when the researchers reached the shop floor they discovered that robots were far too expensive for management to waste them on unskilled jobs . |
| 24 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 25 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 26 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
| 27 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 28 | POLICE are appealing for shopkeepers to help them trace an axe and a sledgehammer thought to be the weapons used in the murder of Liverpool couple Jean Larkin and Garry Pettitt . |
| 29 | It did not take long for engineers to realise they could use more than one microphone , and ‘ balance ’ the music internally . |
| 30 | Pat Nevin 's fifth goal for Rovers earned them three crucial points at Leicester City . |