Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 2 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 3 | I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression . |
| 4 | Where properties are untenanted , Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession . |
| 5 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 6 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 7 | Their diligent enforcement of the Government 's industrial laws has helped to transform the role of the trade unions ; their role as guarantors of public order has led them into bitter conflict with pickets and demonstrators . |
| 8 | For those people whose ego ideal has ruled them with especial strictness , the group situation can appear particularly attractive . |
| 9 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 10 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 11 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 12 | As seen in Fig. 5 , these residues are in the vicinity of the same duplex of DNA as the recognition helix , although adjustments to the model will have to be made to bring them into proper position to interact with DNA . |
| 13 | These week-end visits are such a success that Howard and Felicity begin to expand them into full-scale house parties — the Chases , the Waylands , and Luci Hayter , all at once ; the Bernsteins , the Goodys , the Chyldes , and Charles Aught ; the Kessels , the Keats , the Schaffers , the Chases , and Francis Fairlie . |
| 14 | They have been too ready to use one or other of the clashing theses as occasion served , without troubling to bring them into intelligible relation . |
| 15 | In a news conference on Nov. 9 , however , the Philippine spokesman Rafael M. Alunan appeared to indicate a softening of the government 's stance by differentiating for the first time between " sovereign control " and " operational control " , noting that Philippine personnel would not be fully ready to take over the bases by 1991 and that US personnel would be needed to operate them under Philippine sovereignty for a transitional period . |
| 16 | The Queen added that 1993 would bring new challenges and called on people to resolve to meet them with fresh hope . |
| 17 | We began sorting them into different area sizes as we were getting confused with those we had and did n't have . |
| 18 | Always remember to return them to non-working position after completing the woven fabric . |
| 19 | Set against these points is the maintenance problem ; softwood doors need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep them in good condition . |
| 20 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 21 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 22 | A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein — using ‘ my dear ’ or something worse back ( at a seminar I attended , ‘ baby ’ was suggested … but if it 's your boss you 're dealing with you may need to decide whether your job 's worth it ) . |
| 23 | The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22 that those who had fled from countries where rebel forces had attempted to coerce them into military service were not entitled to political asylum . |
| 24 | It could be only a very moderate charge , in the darkness , since any gallop could have put them into dire trouble over unseen obstacles , whinbushes , ditches and the like . |
| 25 | The person taking the goods must have taken them in good faith without notice of the agent 's lack of authority . |
| 26 | Let us imagine that I have the misfortune to be born or to have settled in Portugal ; being an enlightened philosopher I dislike the institutions there ; should I try to change them by political subversion ? |
| 27 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 28 | The seminar is intended to educate them on climatic change and global warming . |
| 29 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
| 30 | " Dull for the telephone men , I 'm afraid , " I said , " but try to keep them in good heart . |