Example sentences of "[verb] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've frightened them sick — ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hate them bloody things . ’ |
| 3 | Because Britain offers them cheap labour . |
| 4 | Hazel had supposed that he and one or two of his comrades would be taken to see the Chief Rabbit — who would probably not be Cowslip , since Cowslip had come to see them unattended — in his burrow , after which they would all be given different places to go to . |
| 5 | There is a wacky feel but perhaps you have to see them live . |
| 6 | I get a sexy kind of pleasure from it , to see them satisfied , licking their lips , really enjoying the food I 've prepared . ’ |
| 7 | It was worth the risk he 'd taken with these theatrics , just to see them afraid . |
| 8 | Could he bear to see them wired-made vulnerable to the least whim of their lords and masters ? |
| 9 | Frost ai n't good for plants , it turns them black and kills them off if you ai n't careful , but I reckon grass must be OK . |
| 10 | There is a poison in potatoes that turns them green , which is very dangerous to pregnant women . |
| 11 | We get scabies , and we have internal worms , and for those of us whose interests bring them close to mammals or birds , parasites can be just a part of the job . |
| 12 | ‘ They only stand for it because we bring them hard currency , ’ Jim explained , as he accelerated away . |
| 13 | Commonly held ideas restrict the social role and status of older people , structure their expectations of themselves , prevent them achieving their potential and deny them equal opportunities . |
| 14 | Isabel tried to yank them free . |
| 15 | Going then to the Uc Serefeli mosque , Fahreddin Acemi had the people summoned , ascended the and " exposed [ the Hurufis ' ] vain beliefs , adjudged them guilty of unbelief and heresy , and gave judgment that the killing of them was incumbent and that such as aided in the slaying of them would be greatly rewarded " . |
| 16 | We did n't want to kill them full , you see , they 're , that was a waste of food and it was n't so good for them . |
| 17 | However , most of the campaigns are run by authorities in the more accessible countryside ; there are few campaigns organized by those in the remoter or upland areas , either because they deem them undesirable or consider the likely returns insufficient . |
| 18 | These interventions will be implemented despite short-term business protests if state managers deem them class-rational . |
| 19 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 20 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 21 | Philips kept their ownership of the buildings and equipment used in the preparation and serving of the food , but made them available to ISS without charge ( while undertaking to maintain them in good order ) and Philips even paid for the electricity , water and telephone costs involved in the canteen operation and for the removal of waste . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
| 23 | Some parents found social work visits made them fearful and anxious and their self-esteem was reduced . |
| 24 | Masters degree theses were excluded because the smaller numbers made them unsuitable for analysis . |
| 25 | Indeed , the specificity of bacteriophages made them useful in identifying particular strains of bacteria , and the procedure called ‘ phage typing ’ was used for tracing the organism responsible for the spread of an infection in a community . |
| 26 | One senior officer described policewomen as having an ‘ instinct for tidiness ’ which made them good administrators ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 33 ) ; frequently they were described as being suited to dealing with child and female offences because of their more compassionate natures compared to male colleagues . |
| 27 | The basic models or ‘ paradigms ’ of scientific theories seemed firm , though great scientists like James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831–79 ) formulated their versions with the instinctive caution which made them compatible with later theories based on very different models . |
| 28 | Made them ink-exercise it for the Thursday and when I got in the results I was tearing my hair . |
| 29 | He was of the opinion that the Masai possessed ‘ a faculty for reasoned intelligence , a pride and a susceptibility to leadership and ideas which made them amenable to sympathetic handling ’ . |
| 30 | In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes . |