Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped to keep one of them alive for questioning , but they fought hard . |
| 2 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 3 | What are we keeping them alive for ? |
| 4 | with all this killing of children and that and burning them alive with flame throwers , what , what if this higher , high of command , why do n't he interfere |
| 5 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 6 | The traditional way to cook them was fry them alive in hot bacon fat , then add an egg , which had the effect of binding them together . |
| 7 | Keeping them alive in mind and body is a much more accurate description of what we do . |
| 8 | Catch some flies , small moths , mosquitoes or other fairly small insects and keep them alive in a jar . |
| 9 | And catch them alive in the burrows . |
| 10 | I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’ |
| 11 | So I mean perhaps they 'd be better off dead , just keeping them alive in a state of sickness or in coma or something of this sort — there was a great discussion about this and that erm you see not even life is the ultimate good in a sense , you see , at some point death is better . |
| 12 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 13 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 14 | I am not an uncritical admirer of the Labèque sisters : their performances can be uneven , and I have sometimes found them guilty of grabbing a composition by the collar and belting off with it before it can gets its breath . |
| 15 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | However that did n't make them guilty of murder . |
| 18 | Thus , for example , in dyestuffs the firms did not admit to having formed an agreement , but their behaviour in making parallel price changes had the effect of limiting competition , and consequently enabled the EC to find them guilty of operating a concerted practice for which they were substantially fined . |
| 19 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 20 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 21 | There was nothing vulgar about these hands , not like his wife 's plebeian paws with their chilblains and chipped red enamel . |
| 22 | IN THE crusade to make everyone guilty about everything , there is a new technique : tetranalysis , the study of colour , sound , motion and form in movies . |
| 23 | But there was nothing strange about that . |
| 24 | There 's nothing strange about me . ’ |
| 25 | And there was nothing strange about that , because he had always waved . |
| 26 | Nothing strange about that . ’ |
| 27 | Nothing strange about my match angling upbringing , my heroes , I suppose , were shared with many aspiring anglers of my youth . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's nothing strange about that , ’ Rory shot back . |
| 29 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 30 | I saw nothing strange in his behaviour , but it is evident from the literature that the families of anorexics often include a member who either suffers from a psychosomatic complaint or shows an obsessive interest in food and its health-giving properties . |