Example sentences of "[verb] they [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 2 | In any one place , the two species gain by resembling each other , because predators will treat them both as the same kind of prey ; but few predators move far enough for there to be any advantage to the Heliconius in looking the same in distant places . |
| 3 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 4 | ‘ I would envisage a process of discovery , so each party would list documents in their possession and make them available to the other parties . ’ |
| 5 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
| 6 | The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation . |
| 7 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 8 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 9 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 10 | Variations Tweed and Highland were each updated with two new colours , keeping them abreast of the latest trends in colour and furnishing styles . |
| 11 | Cos the the reason they , they er done away with the steam tugs and had a diesel , because a diesel you could start up and er when the dredging finished they tipped the tug at Ipswich and er if they want they one of the big ships up the river , cos then they could start the diesel up quite , right away , whereby a steam tug you a fire there all the time . |
| 12 | We would have preferred to choose them all as the German Rose of Tralee , ’ |
| 13 | They were evidently hearing something different from the rest of us now , for we would watch them slow-dance to the fastest beat , and then , on the next record , see them execute perfect and elaborate improvised arabesques , all fast footwork and impassioned arms , in the gaps of a slow blues . |
| 14 | Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce . |
| 15 | We show them some of the dirty ticks , but it 's pretty elementary because none of those boys are likely to be used in any sort of field work . |
| 16 | I think he 's passing them both on the same time . |
| 17 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 18 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 19 | I put them all in the deep freeze . |
| 20 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 21 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
| 22 | So I 'm disagreeing with what you 're saying , because you , you 're tarring them all with the same brush . |
| 23 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 24 | ‘ The Society can help keep them abreast of the latest news and put them in touch with others who have similar interests . ’ |
| 25 | With the aid of many ‘ outside ’ advisers , both professional and amateur , we scrutinised them all in the 2 weeks of sorting . |
| 26 | " Let's not hang about , " Collins said , ushering them both into the darkened hallway . |
| 27 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 28 | So instead she stormed into the kitchen , surveyed the two lumps of meat and the assortment of vegetables , threw them all into the largest pot she could lay her hands on , and fried them . |
| 29 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 30 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |