Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least .
2 It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs .
3 The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements .
4 I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales .
5 ‘ So I said I 'd see them in a few days .
6 One hour later we dissociated the nerves , cultured them for a few hours , and double-labelled them with an anti-BrdU antibody and an antibody that labels oligodendrocyte precursor cells .
7 ‘ You know the heat is off , Ruth , ’ he told her , his eyes catching hers and holding them for a few seconds .
8 Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours .
9 It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill .
10 Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for .
11 In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force .
12 And from that day to this , no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden , for El-ahrairah prompts them with a thousand tricks , the best in the world . "
13 No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months .
14 She could supply them with a few answers .
15 Do a few products and then , leave them for a few days and go back and integrate them .
16 To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house .
17 The vessels ' hulls are completely intact , and the team hopes to raise them within a few years .
18 Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality .
19 It was perhaps an hour later that the island 's police chief left them with a clicking heels bow .
20 The vast X-ray energies suddenly dumped in their little laps will kill them in a few seconds , giving the fastest cures on record .
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