Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 2 | Griffiths suggests that the legacy of Descartes to the philosophical understanding of emotions has been to subsume them into one of two categories , mind or body , and to make them rational or non-rational . |
| 3 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 4 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 5 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 6 | All you need to do is to wipe them with absorbent paper . |
| 7 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 8 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 9 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 10 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 11 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 13 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 14 | Companies that use computers have been connecting them to each other for a decade , often using AT&T 's telephone lines . |
| 15 | You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’ |
| 16 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 17 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 18 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 19 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |