Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the home government always resisted this simple but dangerous solution , passing up chances to expand territorially if that meant the helots could stab them in the back — or eat them raw . |
| 2 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 3 | For example , strong tea , coffee , alcohol , fruit juice or highly spiced dishes can bring on Cystitis attacks or make them worse . |
| 4 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 5 | The campaign director , Chrissie Maher , says , ‘ If you come across an unnecessarily complicated piece of jargon , you can either forget it or send them one of our cards that carries the pointed message : Gobbledygook can damage your business . ’ |
| 6 | Or send them one of Jaws ! |
| 7 | The Volvo hurtled backwards and Donna gripped the wheel tightly , knowing that this particular ploy was going to stop the Audi or kill them both . |
| 8 | No , there 's , they say in the brief you 've read it , eh , ok , if they ask you tell them , or show them this form , say what it 's all about , but do n't tell them till after . |
| 9 | In other words , exploit them , but do not get too close to them or show them any affection . |
| 10 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 11 | A Face Pack disk is then inserted into the disk drive and you can either choose individual fonts from the list or select them all before pressing OK to install . |
| 12 | The program enables you to make designs , print them out , or transfer them direct to the E6000 console . |
| 13 | You can elect to print faxes on receipt , or view them first . |
| 14 | Do not subject the person to any sudden extreme changes of temperature — so do not put them next to a fire or give them hot water bottles or heavy layers of clothes or blankets . |
| 15 | If you do use sub-sections you can number them ( 1 , 1.1 , 1.2 , etc. ) or give them short titles which indicate what they contain . |
| 16 | Buy plenty at a time — or get them free from clinics — to avoid running out at an inconvenient moment … |
| 17 | Were you to fend them off or drive them crazy ? |
| 18 | 5 Be wary of topics such as politics , sex , race and religion which are very effective in getting a discussion going , as people often have strong feelings on them or find them interesting , but there is the danger of hostility being generated and the discussion getting out of control . |
| 19 | The madam might occasionally slap the girls or call them rude names , but in the end she wants the customers to buy at least one of them . |
| 20 | Look carefully at any windows in hallways , corridors and on stairs to decide whether you should curtain them , blind them , shutter them or leave them alone . |
| 21 | Er asking people whether they were favourable , or mark them favourable or not favourable and so on . |
| 22 | Should we go to an all-time record of 16 pages , shelve several articles or edit them all so much they would hardly be recognisable ? |
| 23 | Whether you disagree profoundly with his interpretations , as I sometimes do , or take them all for what they are , it is almost impossible to break away from the spell of his playing which is , at very worst , interesting . |
| 24 | Realising that before another couple of days had passed , she and Sarah would be able to make the journey Kirkbymoorside and book them two inside seats on the Leeds coach . |
| 25 | Drain the prawns thoroughly and pat them dry on kitchen paper . |
| 26 | It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action . |
| 27 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 28 | Stack them high and sell them cheap . |
| 29 | If a school can tailor its in-house courses and make them relevant to the needs of the whole school staff , then the dynamics of that collective and shared experience may provide greater rewards . |
| 30 | Bearing in mind their success , does the Minister support such schemes , as many of us do , and will resources be forthcoming to finance them and make them viable ? |