Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] them [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter may stimulate them to contribute to the effort of welding together insights from different disciplines , rather than , as the majority of students seem to do , keeping their finance lenses firmly in place when reading finance texts and then changing to sociological lenses when reading sociology . |
| 2 | One teacher 's despair may tempt them to fall into the ‘ rescuer ’ role ; other teachers may strike them as ineffective so that the supporters become judgmentally prescriptive with those ‘ why do n't you … ’ bits of advice that can make things worse by letting the teacher feel how others can handle them better . |
| 3 | The time has come when , in cases of new import , we should decide them according to the reason of the thing . |
| 4 | We must allow them to benefit from the presence of the reserves and , where feasible , to give them the use of the products of the wilderness areas without reducing its natural capital . |
| 5 | We must let them know at the station , or there will be an awful accident . ’ |
| 6 | Just follow my lead and we 'll have them standing in the aisles . ’ |
| 7 | They might have them frozen in the frozen bit , frozen gateaux and stuff |
| 8 | To a large extent , Bolinger 's division between those adjectives that qualify referents and those that qualify sense is presented as if it were a classification of adjectives as word types , that is , as one might find them categorized in the dictionary , thereby giving an impression that Bolinger might regard this almost as a lexical division , similar to that dividing adjectives that can qualify animates from the rest . |
| 9 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 10 | PROMOTER Frank Warren yesterday warned rivals Colin McMillan and Paul Hodkinson that greed could prevent them meeting in a world title clash . |
| 11 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 12 | Left alone in solitary splendour , I could see them crouched behind the car , the flash of a hip-flask indicating that inner man and inner woman were being warmed . |
| 13 | She could see them standing on the ridge of hill that rose up behind Tara 's eastern boundaries , sending out the strong magic of the Samhailt to their creatures , so that the woods and the streams and the hillsides thrummed and quivered with the Mindsong . |
| 14 | As Kim tugged T'ai Cho around the corner he could see them coming down the corridor , not forty ch'i away . |
| 15 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean I could use them to help in the search ? ’ |
| 17 | I 'd like them shown into the cellar , please . |
| 18 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 19 | I could hear them fumbling with the ladder at the window . |
| 20 | I could hear them talking to the neighbours : ‘ He 's a bit thick , our Sean . ’ |
| 21 | And she could hear them talking through the bedroom wall . |
| 22 | You could hear them wailing above the noise of the aircraft . ’ |
| 23 | She could hear them whispering in the passage . |
| 24 | They left the hatch open , and we could hear them going about the barge , arguing with the bargemen . |
| 25 | We could hear them coming up the stairs right to our door and then shouting and hammering on it . |
| 26 | You could hear them coming from the distance , back . |
| 27 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 28 | Paradoxically , the widespread availability of part-time employment for women may enable them to remain in the labour market , even while providing substantial levels of care , whilst men appear more likely to have to choose between full-time employment and stopping work altogether ( see Green , 1988 , Table 2.9 ; Parker , 1992 ) . |
| 29 | The girls enjoyed their swimming lessons , titillated by the well-known fact that some of the more daring boys used to watch them changing through an easily accessible sky light . |
| 30 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |