Example sentences of "be [verb] them [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 2 | If you are driving them near known pipe or cable runs , take care not to pierce them ; it 's best to drive the new nails as close to existing nail positions as possible for safety . |
| 3 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 4 | But Branfoot warned : ‘ I 'll be keeping them under tight control from now on . |
| 5 | Response has been excellent and we are putting them to good use — please keep them coming ! |
| 6 | Instead , staff are putting them into special collecting bins so that they can be taken away for recycling . |
| 7 | To others , including Tennyson and Arnold , it seemed as if ‘ the ringing grooves of change ’ were carrying them at break-neck speed into a future full of uncertainty and alarm . |
| 8 | All you need to do is to wipe them with absorbent paper . |
| 9 | Of course many committees are composed of old chums , but a way of making meetings less forbidding to those outside the circle is to hold them on neutral ground outside members homes . |
| 10 | • If you 're buying fish which are normally kept in brackish conditions , such as Mollies , Puffers and some Gobies , do n't automatically assume that your dealer is stocking them with added salt . |
| 11 | A helpful device is to print them on separate index cards which you carry around with you for a while . |
| 12 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 13 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 14 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 15 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |