Example sentences of "[vb infin] them [prep] [art] [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 | You 'll want them on a long-line sweater or jacket , or else on a kind of Jolly Roger jumpsuit . |
| 4 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 5 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 6 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 7 | Ladies and gentlemen , I 'm very grateful to Professor Eppell for his characteristically kind and generous remarks , and erm I accept them all the more readily because I know you will treat them with a healthy degree of scepticism . |
| 8 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 9 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 10 | Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 11 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 12 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | The first was whether a reasonable buyer who was acquainted with the condition of the goods would buy them without a substantial abatement of the price . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " 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 . " |
| 19 | IF you have valuables insure them with a special student scheme . |
| 20 | ‘ We do n't buy many sweets but the girls do enjoy them as an occasional treat — and I sometimes use them as a bribe ! |
| 21 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
| 22 | Having identified the main sectors we can now include them in the circular flow approach adopted in Figure 1.2 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As the bulbs begin to swell , expose the tops to the sun to help ripen them to a golden colour . |
| 25 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 26 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | When the child has gained a number of these it can exchange them for a rewarding object or activity . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Richard says he does some songs , but would n't inflict them on a paying audience . |