Example sentences of "[vb base] them [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 | 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 |
| 4 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 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 | My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force . |
| 8 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 9 | Town says that , of Britain 's 100 most prescribed drugs , he can buy 67 abroad , sell them for 20 per cent less than the NHS price , and still make anything from 3 to 300 per cent profit . |
| 10 | They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | reckon they sell them like that ? |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 16 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
| 17 | Change them into twelfths |
| 18 | Into twelfths in this case you change them into twelfths to see how many twelfths it would be . |
| 19 | Now , are we sticking with the allocation that we had in the past , peoples responsibility , or when we change them in this sort of way are we mucking them about ? 'Cos I like to know what I am responsible for and what I 'm not . |
| 20 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 24 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What happened if you make them into threes ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So you could try it like this if we had twenty four we could see what happens if you make them into twos ? |
| 29 | They make them in bloody big batches now |
| 30 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |