Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory . |
| 2 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 3 | Because such objects gain value as time elapses it means that a profit can be realised by anyone patient enough to conceal them for twenty years . |
| 4 | IAN LUCAS went along to guide them through those tricky questions . |
| 5 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 6 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |
| 7 | So for some children it is deemed better to place them in small homes where it is easier to maintain continuity of care . |
| 8 | The restaurant manager called all his waiters together to warn them about shady customers . |
| 9 | ‘ By saying that the documentary needed to face up to the frauds , if only to distinguish them from sincere practitioners . ’ |
| 10 | Some time ago , Rover 's management declared its intention to move all its cars up-market , perhaps to produce them in smaller volumes than in the days of Austin Rover , to charge higher prices and make more profit per unit . |
| 11 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 12 | Nestlé Co. could have obtained an injunction restraining the sale of those tins and they required the buyers not to resell them without first removing the labels . |
| 13 | However , and with great irony , it was the Government 's cuts which led to the virtual abandonment of the Council 's housing policy since the Council decided that whereas it was cheaper to service houses in groups , it was even cheaper and perhaps even permissible not to provide them with certain expensive services at all . |
| 14 | ( ‘ Every nation is to be considered advisedly , and not to provoke them by any disdain , laughing , contempt or suchlike , but to use them with prudent circumspection , with all gentleness , and courtesy . ’ |
| 15 | ASTONISHING ‘ It would be astonishing , given the standards , not to apply them in this case , ’ said Mr Bartlett . |
| 16 | Three of the 64 Berkshire commoners are refusing to accept a deal under which they would be paid about £750 each to forfeit rights over the built-up part of the US Air Force base and agree not to exercise them in other areas . |
| 17 | In those gardens he would , no doubt , have noted new plants from America and how best to grow them in this country . |
| 18 | The Labour party 's role should be to bring those matters under democratic control and not to surrender them to remote , unaccountable central bankers . |
| 19 | Some people prefer not to use them at all and remove them . |
| 20 | During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all . |
| 21 | — to respect the non-aligned status chosen by the Persian Gulf countries ; not to draw them into military groupings to which nuclear powers are party ; |
| 22 | But they certainly should n't be encouraged to go into strangers ' houses and we 'd also ask er people who perhaps do have children knocking on their door not to invite them in either . |
| 23 | There is nothing more annoying to a journalist who is working on a story than to be told that the PRO will ring back with the relevant numbers and then not to get them for another two or three days . |
| 24 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 25 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 26 | It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form . |
| 27 | They had been advised not to keep them too cold and also to cover them with waxed paper . |
| 28 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 29 | If you are not familiar with any of these , I have summarised them below so you can learn the fingering shapes and go on to practise them in all keys . |
| 30 | The girl cried out in alarm at the sound of Rohmer 's shout , swinging back to see them at last . |