Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups . |
| 2 | The shorter prologue of Lex Salica states that With God 's help it pleased the Franks and their nobility and they agreed that they ought to prohibit all escalations of quarrels for the preservation of enthusiasm for peace among themselves ; and because they excelled other neighbouring peoples by force of arms , so they should excel them in legal authority , with the result that criminal cases might be concluded in a manner appropriate to the type of complaint . |
| 3 | And erm , they they they must try them on human beings , and I 'm sure there are some people who are quite prepared to these tried . |
| 4 | The public good defence for performances which were proved to be ‘ in the interests of drama , opera , ballet or any other art , or of literature or learning ’ omitted the words ‘ or other objects of general concern ’ , thereby rejecting the so-called ‘ therapeutic defence ’ according to which pornography was claimed to be ‘ psychologically beneficial ’ to some persons ‘ in that it relieves their sexual tensions and may divert them from anti-social activities ’ . |
| 5 | I 'll make them into double deckers . |
| 6 | I think candidates who are thinking of applying for entry in nineteen eighty-five , who are now say seventeen coming on eighteen , have got three or four years ahead of them at university , which is a considerable time , and if nothing else , university will make them question themselves , what their interests are , and they 'll introduce them to new subjects , new areas of study , and it may be a mistake to embark on a vocational course , and discover halfway through that actually it 's not what you want to do . |
| 7 | The Home Office guidelines on the work of a Special Branch are published in the Select Committee Report of 1985 , from which it will be seen how protest by individuals and groups might bring them to Special Branch attention : |
| 8 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 9 | What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ? |
| 10 | It 's not that ‘ they 're saying , ‘ We 've got these things that do n't work well and we 'll dump them on unsuspecting countries . ’ ’ |
| 11 | Right , I 'll get a couple and we 'll have them with mashed cream potatoes . |
| 12 | That 's seconded , nice to know we have a straight choice , as you favour , we 'll take them in reverse order . |
| 13 | EIGHTEEN large American companies , are now testing prospective employees for genetic traits that might put them at special risk in their work . |
| 14 | Or I could open some tins of potatoes and he 'll fry them with corned beef and beans . |
| 15 | This might involve them in consulting books and other sources , or it might involve practical investigations . |
| 16 | YOU 'LL FIND THEM IN MAIN AVENUE GARDEN 12 — ‘ THE THIRD DIMENSION ’ . |
| 17 | He observed that here there was no need to grow trees from seed ; one could buy them in various sizes , ‘ cultivated and clipped ’ at a moderate price on account of many competitive tradesmen . |
| 18 | I could predict them with reasonable assurance in each case , except Addy . |
| 19 | Banks prefer to lend short-term because their borrowing ( at least from depositors ) is short-term and changes in interest rates could lock them into long-term loans that were uneconomical . |
| 20 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 21 | They would have no direct control over such institutions except that they could pay them for particular services . |
| 22 | We could equip them with two-way radios , but they would be confiscated at road checks . |
| 23 | Yet , of course , electric heating remained attractive to consumers ( most of whom by then had fires or , if the Boards refused to sell them , could obtain them from other shops ) . |
| 24 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 25 | It also means that the feral dogs are acquiring genetic material that could turn them into dangerous carnivores in grand style . |
| 26 | Defending barrister Thomas Teague told Mr Jones yesterday : ‘ You used to steal things from your foster parents and you used to give them to other children at school . |
| 27 | Well we used to have them in Middle House . |
| 28 | And er the police used to take them in black marias some of them . |
| 29 | A youth training fund would enable us to continue this scheme , not only with a view to employment , but enabling us to provide training and development of personal skills , which would benefit them in future employment or future education . |
| 30 | It seemed to me shocking that they should engage in such a crude , almost obscene activity in public , and I would watch them with fascinated repulsion . |