Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts to maximize women 's achievement arousal and self-esteem , for instance , frequently involve presenting them with social rather than intellectual stimuli . |
| 2 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 3 | You tried putting them in two two sets of how many . |
| 4 | I like , do n't like getting them like that and if he gets the new ones |
| 5 | They created machinery to avoid extending them to those whose ascertainable record showed them to be untrustworthy and likely to default . |
| 6 | I remember seeing them on Ready Steady go and liking Ronnie Lane 's smile . |
| 7 | We began sorting them into different area sizes as we were getting confused with those we had and did n't have . |
| 8 | ‘ Most tenants were very happy with their existing range , and their biggest fear was that we would stop supplying them with Bass beers . |
| 9 | A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein — using ‘ my dear ’ or something worse back ( at a seminar I attended , ‘ baby ’ was suggested … but if it 's your boss you 're dealing with you may need to decide whether your job 's worth it ) . |
| 10 | Based at Domodeovo , Moscow 's main internal airport , Air Russia will buy or lease brand new Boeing 767s and hopes to start flying them by 1994 . |
| 11 | Fifteen years ago the Victoria and Albert Museum reclassified many of its nineteenth-century study photographs as art photographs and started treating them with much more respect . |
| 12 | ‘ If there 's not a properly controlled Government cull , fishermen are going to start shooting them from open boats and you are going to end up with injured seals . |
| 13 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
| 14 | Barbados ca n't survive on the sugar market alone , but try convincing them of that . |
| 15 | Try practising them against any of the following chords : A maj , B min , C♯min , D(#4) , E7 , F♯m and G♯m7♭5 . |
| 16 | Other programmes are ‘ slipped to the right ’ , which means delaying them to later years in the Costing ; and the rest are pruned in size or cut out all together . |
| 17 | In practice , that means training them above all to teach beginners , since at present perhaps half of those who start learning a foreign language in the first year of secondary school have given it up by the end of the third year . |
| 18 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 19 | You are already familiar with the mathematical operations curl , div , and grad ( I prefer using them in vector-operator form ) , and you need no introduction to the concepts of electricity . |
| 20 | Manufacturers of the three fungicides voluntarily instructed US farmers in October to stop using them on 70 out of 83 approved crops . |
| 21 | Does presenting them in this way , grouped in the separate chapters , aid discourse type identification ? |
| 22 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 23 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 24 | But in today 's lean property market , homebuyers could start putting them to good use . |
| 25 | And I suggested charging them like sixty pounds for the three nights . |
| 26 | The archaeologist stood watching them with that fixed grin , staring into their souls . |