Example sentences of "[be] [verb] they [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We shall be treating them like a Premier League side . ’ |
| 3 | If people want to better themselves , they are entitled to enjoy this sort of instruction : it should not be denied them in a civilised society . |
| 4 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 5 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
| 6 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 7 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 8 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 9 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 10 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
| 11 | Mr Pizzi is replacing them with a main circular space with a two storey-colonnaded façade . |
| 12 | The best way to do this is to wrap them in a thick layer of newspaper and hit them with a hammer . |
| 13 | The ideal is to coat them with a good flexible roofing compound while still sound , which can extend the life of a roof by up to 20 years . |
| 14 | The recommended treatment for infested books is to put them into a sealed tin with a jar of paradichlorobenzine for a week . |
| 15 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 16 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |
| 17 | It is to teach our young people about Him , it is to bring them to a conscious faith in Him so that in the heart and life of the Church , they can proclaim and witness to the faith of the ages , that Jesus is truly God and truly man , the Lord and saviour of us all . ’ |
| 18 | A simple method for remembering the names of the three areas is to associate them with a particular point of the body . |
| 19 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 20 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 21 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 22 | The only thing wrong was he was washing them with a hundred octane gasoline , he had a gasoline engine firing exhaust underneath it and he was parked among all our gas trucks . |
| 23 | Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us . |