Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | While the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association counselled caution on closures , the impressive period architecture of asylums has attracted the interest of architects in the possibilities of preserving them intact with a resident population . |
| 22 | Makes me introspective about certain things missing from my life these days . ’ |
| 23 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 24 | Official human rights sources in the country reported 228 " extrajudicial executions " and 45 disappearances in 1991 , two-thirds of them attributable to the security forces and civil patrols . |
| 25 | And no doubt she thinks me strange beyond belief I am too tall , not handsome by this world 's standards , and I do n't know how to pay the pretty compliments a young woman expects . |
| 26 | If the olives have been stored in brine , rinse them well in running water , then pat them dry on kitchen paper . |
| 27 | Drain the prawns thoroughly and pat them dry on kitchen paper . |
| 28 | After handling each recruit 's clothes the Chief-Corporal swilled his hands over with surgical spirit , wiping them dry on a piece of grey towel . |
| 29 | Afterwards he washed the tin out in the stream , splashed water over his face and hands and wiped them dry on a handkerchief . |
| 30 | The other thing I mean to be healthy it 's more important to dry things and keep them dry for a while than to boil them . |