Example sentences of "[verb] they [adj] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every time I got them involved with the story , ’ Hopper explained , ‘ I 'd come back at them and say , ‘ Ha , ha , it 's only a movie … ’ ’ |
| 2 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 3 | From large carpet areas to those tricky areas which you may have thought impossible to get really clean — the Steamatic enables you to clean them all with the minimum of fuss . |
| 4 | For most schools , there is nothing new about this thinking : TVEI has already made them familiar with the concepts of cross-curricular dimensions ( such as equal opportunities , independent learning ) skills and competences ( such as literacy , oracy , numeracy , computer literacy , and the less obvious visual literacy ) and themes ( such as health education , careers education and guidance , environmental and economic education and — increasingly — citizenship ) . |
| 5 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 6 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 7 | It is easy to denigrate age-related treatment policies by tarring them all with the brush of the neologism ‘ ageist ’ . |
| 8 | So I 'm disagreeing with what you 're saying , because you , you 're tarring them all with the same brush . |
| 9 | He covered them both with the cool sheets but he had no intention of giving up his questioning . |
| 10 | We can then pay them direct with the possibility of obtaining a discount . |
| 11 | Keen-sighted people can distinguish them both with the naked eye . |
| 12 | Daphne treated them all with the same disdain , confiding in me that her one true love was still serving on the Western Front — not that she once mentioned his name in my presence . |
| 13 | But at the end of Day three the RAF had won again putting them level with the French at the top of the table … |
| 14 | When have they ever had a reasonable pay deal which puts them level with the private sector ? |
| 15 | It tainted them all with the scandal . ’ |
| 16 | She stole the time to brush them clear with the side of her hand then slipped back inside , hoping no-one would notice her . |
| 17 | Thirdly , the criteria themselves do nothing to reduce the lengths of any custodial sentences that are imposed , in spite of the exhortation to make them commensurate with the seriousness of the offence . |
| 18 | Sandwich the top of the lining between the two layers of the tape , turning the ends over twice to bring them level with the sides of the lining ( fig. 27 ) . |