Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 3 | John is convinced visitors bring nothing but good to York . |
| 4 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 5 | Suspend them on long and short threads , tied to a wire coat-hanger . |
| 6 | Temple rejected , though , the weavers ' complaint that clothiers in general " load them with intolerable weights and starve them by stoppages " . |
| 7 | They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to make shoes and sell them in large quantities and yet I would like them to be different , individual , and to achieve that , I require a designer . ’ |
| 9 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 10 | When , however , they borrow them from other disciplines , they must expect either that the chronological fit is bad ( if they insist on matching the style ) or that the stylistic fit is bad ( if they match the chronology ) . |
| 11 | PAMELA : [ coldly ] I mean nothing but good . |
| 12 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 13 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 14 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 15 | It was a common sight then to see several boys , myself included , stand at the pavement 's edge , take out our little ‘ Willies ’ — raise them on high for elevation , and suddenly direct the streams of urine on to the watching , gaping girls . |
| 16 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 17 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 18 | Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs . |
| 19 | Sixty of them and put them out and make them into nice little lines and that and see what things you 'd have to multiply together to make twelve or what numbers you 'd multiply together cos it 'd be so many sets of like four sets of three or three sets of four . |
| 20 | They make them in bloody big batches now |
| 21 | We can , as with dependent conditionals , distinguish them from other " if " statements , specify their logical properties-including contraposition and transitivity-and give their logical relations , notably their relations to dependent conditionals . |
| 22 | Salt ways present no special features that distinguish them from other roads and lanes on the map or on the ground . |
| 23 | It is envisaged that an analysis of such information will enable the identification of those financial , entrepreneurial , technical and regional factors which are most associated with the growth and performance of subcontracting small firms and which distinguish them from other more ‘ typical ’ small firms . |
| 24 | TO peel the chestnuts , use a sharp knife to make a couple of slits in the skin of each one , put them in a saucepan , pour over enough boiling water to cover and simmer over a medium heat for about 5 minutes , then take them out a few at a time , drain and refresh them under running cold water . |
| 25 | Revitalise them with conditioning serum . |
| 26 | Many of the individual steps have been identified and considerable efforts are under way to take the steps and combine them into efficient catalytic cycles . |
| 27 | We are lucky in that we can draw on centuries of experience and combine them with modern materials in a way that will be pleasing from year one . |
| 28 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 29 | Campbell suggests that there are extra pressures on girls which push them towards certain types of crime . |
| 30 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |