Example sentences of "[vb infin] they [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the snow comes , this will insulate them from the cold air and allow them to tease out woodlice , spiders and other invertebrates from leaf-litter or plant roots . |
| 2 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 3 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 4 | David does n't want them in the first place and he wo n't argue , I 've discussed it with Robin he wo n't argue , erm Richard who 's the only one that could really be regarded as a loser dare n't argue 'cos it 's his report that recommends we they come back to us , and John wo n't understand the item so I think we 're alright there . |
| 5 | You do n't want them in the next group with us do you ? |
| 6 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 7 | Several different views have been put forward ; we shall consider them in the next chapter under three headings : |
| 8 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 9 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 10 | We all like ‘ to do right ’ by our horses and this often involves the over-feeding of supplements , either because the horse does n't need them in the first place or because we tend to think ‘ a little bit extra will do him even more good ’ . |
| 11 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 12 | Apart from the shame of being kept in like a naughty schoolboy , the constant automatic repetition of the lines taken out of the context of the play could often lodge them in the leakiest actor 's mind . |
| 13 | What becomes the English language starts as the dialect of a minority and is imposed upon the majority , usually by force , with legal punishments for those who refuse the schooling which will induct them in the national language . |
| 14 | " Find them , " he told Desimir , " buy them for slaves , trick them or kidnap them , but bring them back somehow so that we can bury them under the great gate and build our city of Skadar . " |
| 15 | Having identified the main sectors we can now include them in the circular flow approach adopted in Figure 1.2 . |
| 16 | Although the list includes characters who could never have met in reality you can include them in the same army if you wish to do so . |
| 17 | If you have any special requests you must include them in the special request box on the booking form , but please note that special requests are not guaranteed and are subject to availability . |
| 18 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 19 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 20 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 21 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 22 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 23 | Most days they were invisible behind low cloud , but if Martha could not see them she could always feel them in the cold fury of the river and the eddying downdraughts of chill air which occasionally penetrated the valley . |
| 24 | Certainly the tabular method of presenting results does not show them in the best light and the use of graphs would have made them much more accessible . |
| 25 | Now they will be scared rigid of stepping up and saying anything which could land them on the same mat upon which Lamb was so unfairly punished at Lord 's yesterday . |
| 26 | I 've looked with binoculars and I ca n't see them with the naked eye . |
| 27 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 28 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 29 | They do n't er , you ca n't see them in the same way you could go and see your parents . |
| 30 | If you want to impress your friends , you can nonchalantly steer them towards the small plaque on the side of the bonnet . |