Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] them [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fabric wall coverings — ranging from hessians or burlaps , felts and flannels to suedes , wool , silk and moiré — come with a paper backing which makes it easy to stick them to the walls . |
| 2 | What Aristotle had seen as the vice of the pharaohs , Cardinal Richelieu raised to a maxim of policy for Louis XIII , whom he advised ‘ all politicians agree that when the people are too comfortable , it is impossible to keep them within the bounds of their duty … |
| 3 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 4 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 5 | Plumbers refer to these as ‘ fifteen mil ’ , ‘ twenty-two mil ’ and ‘ twenty-eight mil ’ , but are equally likely to call them by the names of the premetrication pipes they replaced : ½in , ¾in and lin . |
| 6 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 7 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 8 | The people of Wainfleet are openly friendly , keen to welcome visitors and proud to tell them about the fascinations of the town . |
| 9 | Even when there are no covenants by a buyer , if the purchase is in joint names execution by the buyers is necessary to commit them to the terms on which they hold the property as set out in the transfer . |