Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 3 | Temple rejected , though , the weavers ' complaint that clothiers in general " load them with intolerable weights and starve them by stoppages " . |
| 4 | They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to make shoes and sell them in large quantities and yet I would like them to be different , individual , and to achieve that , I require a designer . ’ |
| 6 | When , however , they borrow them from other disciplines , they must expect either that the chronological fit is bad ( if they insist on matching the style ) or that the stylistic fit is bad ( if they match the chronology ) . |
| 7 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 8 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 9 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 10 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 11 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 12 | Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs . |
| 13 | Salt ways present no special features that distinguish them from other roads and lanes on the map or on the ground . |
| 14 | Revitalise them with conditioning serum . |
| 15 | We are lucky in that we can draw on centuries of experience and combine them with modern materials in a way that will be pleasing from year one . |
| 16 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 17 | Campbell suggests that there are extra pressures on girls which push them towards certain types of crime . |
| 18 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 19 | Um it 's almost as if the debate about false memory syndrome is embedded in an older notion of memory , embedded in a notion of memory as if it were either literally true or literally false , embedded in a notion of memory which sees memories as things like larders or cupboards or filing cabinets and um y'know people pick the memories out and get them out and and display them to other people . |
| 20 | They 'll also get more local capability to off-load host processing , including a new Motif-run VT320 emulator , a local host chooser client , a local command shell and the ability to run local processes and display them on remote X displays . |
| 21 | Fence Them In British soccer 's first spiked steel fence will form an impenetrable barrier to unruly … fans next season . |
| 22 | if those people also supply me with never-ending cups of tea and coffee while they 're there . |
| 23 | The fact that investment trusts do not continually take in new funds and channel them to ultimate borrowers obviously raises the question of whether they should be considered as financial intermediaries at all . |
| 24 | I send them on regular trips abroad to keep up to date with new technology … ’ |
| 25 | We got to thinking that if we came to Los Angeles regularly we could make these shows all the time and send them to English-speaking countries all over the world . |
| 26 | Then if you feel it is appropriate , address them to their homes and send them by registered mail . |
| 27 | They would also remove any personal belongings which were removable and next day place them on prominent display , according to Polperro 's Quiller Couch , ‘ … to disclose the disgraceful want of vigilance supposed to characterise the owner ’ . |
| 28 | And we now have the final symbolism of Ross Perot , the white knight set to storm Washington , who has in the not-so-distant past said that it might be necessary to suspend the constitution and cordon off black neighbourhoods and place them under martial law . |
| 29 | Immediately prior to use rinse the coverslips two or three times in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 and place them in individual wells of a multi-well plastic tissue culture dish ( Nunc ) containing 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 . |
| 30 | Place them in similar positions in your new home so that the growing conditions remain as consistent as possible . |