Example sentences of "[be] [verb] they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 2 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 3 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 4 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 5 | ‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | If we continue to ignore these people , especially the young , we may be fighting them in the near fu future as they are actively being targeted by the far right British National Party and other fascist organizations that are using this sense of desertion . |
| 7 | How- ever , the first instalment of the kingdom would soon be sent them by the ascended King himself . |
| 8 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 9 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 10 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 11 | When will the Department publish the review of the social fund , which we have long awaited , and when will he restore the right of the poorest in our society to a grant for essential items such as clothing , furniture and cookers , which have been denied them under the current system ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 13 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 14 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 15 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |
| 16 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 17 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 18 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 19 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 20 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 21 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 22 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |