Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] with [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 | Temple rejected , though , the weavers ' complaint that clothiers in general " load them with intolerable weights and starve them by stoppages " . |
| 3 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 4 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 5 | Revitalise them with conditioning serum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | if those people also supply me with never-ending cups of tea and coffee while they 're there . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the month , begin to strip down hanging baskets and replant them with winter-flowering pansies to provide colour through the darker winter days . |
| 9 | Check all the facts and refute them with sound evidence . |
| 10 | Quarter figs , top them with some cinnamon-spiced ricotta and drizzle with clear honey . |
| 11 | Some people develop very strong appetites for recognition and are attracted to jobs which provide them with endless ‘ jellybeans ’ ; for example , the reward systems of the armed services , higher education and the professions offer substantial opportunities to be recognized and praised for one 's performance . |
| 12 | They also learn the position of the wetlands that provide them with crucial staging posts where they can feed and rest before starting on the next part of their journey . |
| 13 | As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity . |
| 14 | As the preceding paragraphs have shown , child care is , until the Children Bill becomes law in the early 1990s , based on the Child Care Act 1980 , under which one major duty of the local authorities is to receive children into care and provide them with adequate substitute homes unless or until they can be returned to their natural parents . |
| 15 | They must be a priority target group , so we can prevent exploitation and discrimination and provide them with adequate training in health and safety and other matters . |
| 16 | The qualitative methods provide them with feminist validity , while the quantitative methods ensure the reliability which psychology values . |
| 17 | It does not , however , provide them with any defence to a claim that they negligently advised a particular treatment or negligently carried it out . |
| 18 | Barber argues that the knowledge and skills of professionals provide them with considerable power and it is therefore essential for the well-being of society that this power be used for the benefit of all . |
| 19 | Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences . |
| 20 | One could put all these postulated differences down on paper and , taking samples of the two groups , go off and interview them with all sorts of yes/no questions . |
| 21 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 22 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 23 | A more common way in which the simulation of the old computer can be improved is to select heavily used portions of the simulator program and replace them with individual specialized instructions ( such as for instruction fetching and decoding ) ; these new instructions are then implemented in microcode . |
| 24 | Point Two : ‘ Surely anybody knows that if you take an ancient set of tubes and replace them with new tubes that are of reasonable performance , you 're going to get a hell of an improvement in sound . |
| 25 | Instead of trying to kill house dust mites , the best things is to throw pillows away and replace them with new ones which wo n't contain any allergen . |
| 26 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 27 | It would dearly like ( as one railway manufacturer has proposed ) to rip the diesel engines out of an existing HST and replace them with electric engines , and then use this train for tests . |
| 28 | First we discard all the subjective labels and comments and replace them with objective descriptions of behaviour ( 3 ) . |
| 29 | As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net . |
| 30 | The first is to strip out all the formatting on the source system and , if possible , replace them with generic codes ; [ B ] for bold on , [ b ] for bold off , etc . |