Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the purpose of the march was to force the French to battle it failed ; Charles 's council debated whether to go on the offensive against Gaunt 's army , but in the event their belief in the military superiority of the English was still sufficiently strong to inhibit them from offering an open challenge , and they agreed to pursue the usual defensive tactics . |
| 2 | Though most women experience the feelings I did , they are only willing to discuss them with other mothers . |
| 3 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 4 | I would make amends if they would contact me , and would be so glad to invite them to my home , to meet my wife and children . |
| 5 | Recognising sharp practice in their dealers from the outset , they would be less likely to blame them for huge losses . |
| 6 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 7 | Especially unusual to find them in a Tyrian , because as a rule Tyrians only care about making money . |
| 8 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 9 | ‘ In this country it is not illegal to use them because they are a prescription drug , it is only illegal to transfer them to somebody else . ’ |
| 10 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 11 | Although they are much safer than allopathic or conventional drugs it is obviously advisable to store them in a safe place , out of reach of little fingers . |
| 12 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
| 13 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 14 | They 've got less fat to insulate them from cold . |
| 15 | Many of them have inordinately high mortgages around their necks and they are finding it extremely difficult to service them in this unusually long period of high interest rates . |
| 16 | In order to enslave the English people , we might argue , it is only necessary to enslave them at election time : once in four years Is enough . |
| 17 | It is worth noting , however , that one of the ideas behind the risk theory , namely that losses should be borne by the party best able to absorb them with least dislocation and disruption , is a very popular one in the ( private ) law of tort where the theory of fault liability is , in some areas at least , under attack . |
| 18 | For but everything is so so not wholly satisfactory so I 'm just scared to have them in the house . |
| 19 | Cases ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , involving chelating and bridging ligands , lead to slightly reduced frequencies for both bond stretches , down to about 1500 cm -1 for and about 900 cm -1 for , and it is not usually possible to distinguish them in this way . |
| 20 | if Tracey can get them it might be more reliable to get them from Tracey . |
| 21 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 22 | Thus , although it would in principle be possible to use the producer price indices for measuring the rate of inflation , it is more appropriate to regard them as indicators of the likely future trend of inflation . |
| 23 | Thus the large datasets are still there , but those who manage them are more likely to place them on a file server with appropriate network access ( Knight 1993 ) . |
| 24 | The contractor is obviously more likely to offer them to someone he knows and likes rather than to a stranger . |
| 25 | The doctor told me they were strong : in fact he prescribed them for me but it seems more logical to give them to Mum since it 's her that stops me sleeping . |
| 26 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 27 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 28 | But although it is easy to write fine-sounding words about the vision which should inspire community care services , it is much more difficult to put them into practice . |
| 29 | Since the other Nematodirus species do not have such critical hatching requirements , a sudden flush of L3 does not occur and although N. filicollis , N. spathiger and N. helvetianus have all been associated with outbreaks of nematodiriasis in sheep and cattle , it is more common to find them in conjunction with the other trichostrongyles . |
| 30 | Those peasants who had not disappeared became ever more anxious to migrate while the pomeshchiks became ever more anxious to tie them to the land . |