Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic .
2 I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression .
3 If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking .
4 These week-end visits are such a success that Howard and Felicity begin to expand them into full-scale house parties — the Chases , the Waylands , and Luci Hayter , all at once ; the Bernsteins , the Goodys , the Chyldes , and Charles Aught ; the Kessels , the Keats , the Schaffers , the Chases , and Francis Fairlie .
5 And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something !
6 I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic .
7 Always remember to return them to non-working position after completing the woven fabric .
8 Set against these points is the maintenance problem ; softwood doors need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep them in good condition .
9 If the previous five markets are anything to go by , works will be grabbed from the walls and plinths while organisers rush to replace them with other works .
10 Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts .
11 Try to meet them in non-political situations and when you do not want anything from them .
12 " Dull for the telephone men , I 'm afraid , " I said , " but try to keep them in good heart .
13 ‘ You prefer to play them with married men , do n't you ?
14 Nonetheless , guidance of our approval and disapproval by the principle of utility is the only serious option for those who wish to base them on ascertainable facts to which we can all come to attach the same kind of importance .
15 In supporting a transition to adulthood , how does youth training differentiate between groups of young people ? for some young Black trainees , disproportionately represented in workshop-based schemes , the programmes serve to shape them into acceptable employees within a market which discriminates against them and to ease them gently out of their aspirations into the reality of restricted choice ( Corbett 1990 ) .
16 They have to cope them in accepted rites
17 Because it is subject to the conditions of carriage that we accept their business and therefore we have to provide them with written information .
18 Er , that 's I mean , I think if you really , in these cases you have to count them as different words just like I mean maths and physics does n't mean what maths used to mean in English .
19 No doubt , having aired these feelings well in public he will be exerting pressure behind the scenes to ensure there is no further need to repeat them in open audience .
20 I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events .
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