Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman kissed her deeply , murmuring comfortingly before taking them both to heights that owed more to heaven than to earth . |
| 2 | But it will do so by making them explicit , so that in effect techniques become distinguishable from the principles which inform them . |
| 3 | ‘ Those who desire to win the favour of princes generally endeavour to do so by offering them those things which they themselves prize most , or such as they observe the prince to delight in most . ’ |
| 4 | call a tokenist or segregationist approach , counting black women in by allocating them some scattered mentions , or a separate chapter . |
| 5 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 6 | See I sometimes wonder whether it 's not worth giving them some kind of er a proper test . |
| 7 | Instead of arranging flowers immediately after cutting , help them last longer by conditioning them first . |
| 8 | Indeed , it would be unjustified ( and plain silly ) to strengthen corporate power further by granting them judicial privileges originally formulated to protect relatively powerless individuals . |
| 9 | The key question is whether , after decades of exposure to the various ‘ risk factors ’ , it is possible to reduce the frequency of coronary events and the deaths they may cause in men in the highest-risk categories , by altering the way of life of these men , and perhaps also by giving them appropriate drugs . |
| 10 | My feeling now after driving them all again is that the direction , the aspirations of the range , are as middle of the road as ever . |
| 11 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 12 | Far from rendering them subject to ridicule , such a stress is one of the best ways to hold an audience and gain sympathy . |
| 13 | I mean is it an attempt by the Government to bribe these schools to opt out by giving them more money ? |
| 14 | Do n't be put off by the delicate appearance of this cake , but do allow plenty of time for the separate pieces of icing to harden well before assembling them all together . |
| 15 | Among the most important of these indirect effects is the role which test cases can play in politicising issues by forcing them onto the political agenda and once there in keeping them alive . |
| 16 | Mrs Browning had declared it was all too bad , too dreadful an imposition to have been responsible for and that she would not be able to look the Ogilvys in the eye ever again after causing them such vexation . |
| 17 | But instead of leaving them shut up and prey to vandals and arson , they can be sold off separately and , of course , realize much-needed capital for the health authority . |
| 18 | The other men were standing well to one side expecting violence and the soldier finished his cigarette and put his hands into his pockets instead of holding them high . |
| 19 | It will be a complete change to report these facts instead of keeping them secret . |
| 20 | If , instead of following them that way you follow them a bit further north and follow them north of the Himalayas , then get smaller and greyer and paler , and the two ends of the loop meet in China and behave as distinct species . |
| 21 | The phrase " factory system " was already entering the language when , in 1807 , Davies Gilbert MP , a distinguished scientist , declared : However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor , it would in effect be prejudicial to their morals and happiness : it would teach them to despise their lot in life , instead of making them good servants to agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination , it would render them factious and refractory , as was evident in the manufacturing counties . |
| 22 | Some lyricists manage to keep themselves apart from the song , suggesting things instead of making them obvious , and that approach is maybe better because the listeners have to use their imagination … |
| 23 | We in the north , and in the E E C in particular , have a policy of encouraging , or discouraging , Third World countries from from doing anything to the , the commodities at all , apart from exporting them raw as far as possible . |
| 24 | Indeed , she told me that she looked forward to practising them each evening as it formed such a peaceful interlude in her anxious life . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't get round to putting them all in frames . |
| 26 | We even got round g we even got round to giving them mobile phones . |
| 27 | The restructuring of the social services in the 1940s aimed primarily at making them universal , i.e. free or low-cost access to all . |