Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
2 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
3 | Unfortunately this was still not enough to give them a parliamentary majority as the Legislative Council contained four members who would be nominated by the Governor . |
4 | The mannikin skipped over to show them the unexpected addition to his ghastly collection . |
5 | There 's no harm in using highly processed foods occasionally but it 's best not to make them a regular part of the family 's diet . |
6 | In Paris in March , 1951 he assured Eisenhower , then Supreme Allied Commander in Western Europe , that with 12 extra infantry battalions plus the Vietnamese army which he was organizing and training , he would repel the anticipated Vietminh mass attack in September and go on to deal them a decisive blow . |
7 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
8 | We widened the steps slightly to make them a secure and comfortable width to walk and wheel a barrow down . |
9 | Now police are out to give them a short , sharp lesson , as an alternative to prosecution . |
10 | Alejandro caught me stealing out to water them the first night . |
11 | Er we we 're here to give them a decent service , and we 'll do our utmost to do that , |
12 | I am there to give them the ultimate challenge and I do . |
13 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |
14 | Find out who will be there to wake them the next morning , if you are not on duty . |
15 | We also decided that Mike would have to take every third day off to recover , while Christophe continued to follow the chimps , so that he and Mike would know where to find them the following day . |