Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 2 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 3 | ( ‘ Every nation is to be considered advisedly , and not to provoke them by any disdain , laughing , contempt or suchlike , but to use them with prudent circumspection , with all gentleness , and courtesy . ’ |
| 4 | The Labour party 's role should be to bring those matters under democratic control and not to surrender them to remote , unaccountable central bankers . |
| 5 | They had been advised not to keep them too cold and also to cover them with waxed paper . |
| 6 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |