Example sentences of "them [adj] as " in BNC.

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1 where th the a apparently , you know , they put them right as se when you 're very young now
2 the same way as when they dribble and they 're , maybe a little bit sick , their clothing gets damp , it acts as a conductor of warmth so it will cool them and it will make them sore as well , so keep the baby dry as possible .
3 Also made them waterproof as well ?
4 When , after perhaps quarter of an hour , the ice was opaque and solid as ever around the sides of the refrigerator , she became impatient and tried to chip at it , first with her fingers and then , finding them painful as well as useless , with the point of a kitchen knife .
5 Keep them warm as you make them .
6 It was estimated by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) that Iraq was holding up to 40,000 Iranian PoWs ( more than half of them unregistered as such ) and that Iran held up to 70,000 Iraqi PoWs ( of whom some 50,000 were registered ) .
7 As for my eidetic happenings , I found them suspect as well ; they were so clearly a product of my own fervid visual imagination .
8 However , it seems unlikely that in the foreseeable future they will attract sufficient students to make them viable as institutions predominantly offering courses of higher education .
9 The men , very handsome and as many of them blond as dark , gathered at the back of the plane , embracing each other and eyeing Perdita with approval and chattering like a great drinks party .
10 Constantius found them useful as informants and spies , not only in the Court , but also to send on special confidential or delicate missions .
11 There are numerous by-products from these plants , most of them useful as chemicals and the rest as fuel .
12 Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols .
13 There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night .
14 So when you see a pair of horses move round and so that you do get them separated as they are , or any animal , not just horses , any animals really , get them separated , er or any , any object really , it 's better to have a little bit of separation .
15 Our current intention is to keep them available as long as there is a source of supply .
16 Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires .
17 I. Lastly , if use-values which do embody surplus-value are used by unproductive workers they can not be productive of further surplus-value , even though the material form makes them suitable as capital .
18 That is , their meanings are not ‘ given ’ by some set of facts , but rather by the way in which these facts are interpreted by observers in a form that makes them recognisable as crimes , mental illnesses or cases of child abuse .
19 Rover believes in catching them young as Judith Jackson discovered in Swindon The body shop Motoring .
20 Only Greenidge and Lloyd kept them afloat as Snow and Underwood bowled really well and the fielders backed them up .
21 Now in this chapter , Capturing Animals he says that when he was young , before he ever started writing poems , he used to like animals , he used to like them dead as well as alive
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