Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped him , I said do n't do that leave them in the envelopes and mark them as they are , so what |
| 2 | My fingers feel all tingly , but it do n't half feel good to stick them in the water . |
| 3 | We are unable to hear the ultrasonic radar signals of bats , let alone interpret them with the intelligible rapidity which they can . |
| 4 | The female when on heat was obviously erotically inclined herself , and could soon arouse the male , but , once aroused , the sexual drive of both animals seemed unable to direct them towards the exact behaviour demanded by the situation . |
| 5 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 6 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 7 | The prosecution alleges this links them with the 3 lorry attacks . |
| 8 | The colours are bright and are called fluorescent to distinguish them from the normal opaque colours in the usual felt-tip pens . |
| 9 | Of course , our quiz is intended to be light-hearted , so if you disagree with the conclusions , feel free to take them with a pinch of salt . |
| 10 | They also demonstrate the very considerable importance of scheduling and demographic targeting in establishing distinctions within broad categories : in order to make sense of broad programmatic genres like soap opera or crime series it always seems necessary to identify them with a qualifying time-slot — daytime soap , early evening soap and prime-time soap ; or , in Britain , pre-nine o'clock crime series ( the tradition of Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) , Juliet Bravo ( 1980–9 ) and The Bill ( 1988- ) and post-nine o'clock crime ( the subgenres of The Sweeney ( 1974–8 ) and Taggart ( 1985- ) , and of the US imports ) . |
| 11 | For their part , trade unions showed little or no interest in the new community-based movements that emerged from the late 1960s , and saw little to interest them in the educational work that developed around community struggles . |
| 12 | Children here do n't lack any sort of ability it 's because th they English is n't their first language so they need support in learning English to help them with the everyday necessities of the national curriculum . |
| 13 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 14 | does that compare them with the customers ? |
| 15 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 16 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 17 | He was also workshy , and no-one could remember when he last had a regular job , but most people could recall when he 'd last tried to touch them for the loan of a bob . |
| 18 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 19 | They are old enough to remember the early days of independence , when the departing British pushed them towards a pan-Caribbean federation of English-speakers ; but the people of Jamaica , the largest potential member ( with 2.5m people now ) , killed that by voting against it in a referendum . |
| 20 | However , in contradistinction to mortality summaries , period tables have less to commend them in the case of marriage where year-to-year variations may be considerable and past history affects cohorts differentially . |