Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 2 | So for some children it is deemed better to place them in small homes where it is easier to maintain continuity of care . |
| 3 | The restaurant manager called all his waiters together to warn them about shady customers . |
| 4 | ‘ By saying that the documentary needed to face up to the frauds , if only to distinguish them from sincere practitioners . ’ |
| 5 | Three of the 64 Berkshire commoners are refusing to accept a deal under which they would be paid about £750 each to forfeit rights over the built-up part of the US Air Force base and agree not to exercise them in other areas . |
| 6 | — to respect the non-aligned status chosen by the Persian Gulf countries ; not to draw them into military groupings to which nuclear powers are party ; |
| 7 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 8 | It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form . |
| 9 | They had been advised not to keep them too cold and also to cover them with waxed paper . |
| 10 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 11 | At a more specific level there were matters like the involvement with the Military College at Shrivenham , where students were military employees and where the College wished the students to handle security classified material in their courses and possibly even to examine them on classified material . |
| 12 | Y we put it in the garden and I got really cold hands and then was just about to put them into hot water when you said do n't cos you 'll get chilblains |
| 13 | It was a stormy meeting during which Callaghan was one of those who clashed angrily with Morrison , arguing that the abandonment of the free vote meant pressurising them to change their convictions , or at least to keep them in cold storage . |
| 14 | Given the close relationship between the occupational behaviour of working-class adolescents and their ‘ personality ’ , reformers faced certain difficulties : how to imbue them with approved ethical principles ; how to turn them into efficient workers ; how effectively to reorganize the labour-market for social and economic ends . |
| 15 | The Salvadorean government has done little to aid the displaced , choosing instead to see them as potential subversives who must be carefully watched . |