Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] they [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ants can be kept in large glass jars filled with soil or in a wormery ( Chapter 6 ) , but to see them best you should keep them in a special kind of housing . |
| 2 | I am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can , and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor Linnaeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus [ sumach ] , with which all the species of Toxicodendron , which I have yet examined , will by no means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct plants , or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the same plant , which , according to his own system , must remove them to a great distance from the Rhus . |
| 3 | The Blueharts game should provide them with a confidence-building win . |
| 4 | So if the carriages are at the right , you must set them for an anti-clockwise circle , if they 're at the left , for a clockwise circle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 5 | Tea and coffee should be strictly limited , and the patient should drink them from a small cup , and should not be given several cups in succession . |
| 6 | no well you should n't put carrots in , you should put 'em in a separate pan |
| 7 | You 'll want them on a long-line sweater or jacket , or else on a kind of Jolly Roger jumpsuit . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll keep them in a safe place together , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It 's supported by our local M P , so I believe , well it 's okay , minutes of the previous meeting which was held on the twelfth of October , and I 'll sign them as a true and accurate version . |
| 10 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that he has listened to hon. Members and representatives of people with disabilities who are worried that the additional room or larger property that they need to accommodate their disabilities might take them into a higher band and that he has decided that any such people should fall within one band lower than would otherwise be the case ? |
| 11 | Police believe the birds were stolen to order by specialist thieves who 'll sell them to a private collector abroad . |
| 12 | At the very least , he might leave them with a few choice phrases to remember him by . |
| 13 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | You could use them as a decorative device on invitations , or as part of the design on your personal writing paper . |
| 16 | ‘ So I said I 'd see them in a few days . |
| 17 | It was n't until the beginning of 1969 that they realized the paper could provide them with a regular income . |
| 18 | If there is not room for this you might utilize the space by making slots in the counter top to take your cooking knives , or you could suspend them from a magnetic bar just above out of reach of children . |
| 19 | You can then move the data files that you want to keep ( having selected them with Ctrl+click ) onto a disk in drive A. Alternatively you could move them to a different subdirectory on the hard disk . |
| 20 | You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads . |
| 21 | It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could |
| 22 | She could supply them with a few answers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 25 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
| 29 | Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom . |
| 30 | When he died , he divided his liquid assets and his land between his sons , having first provided for each of his daughters through setting up trust funds which would provide them with a good income . |