Example sentences of "[vb base] they [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth .
2 Revitalise them with conditioning serum .
3 Fence Them In British soccer 's first spiked steel fence will form an impenetrable barrier to unruly … fans next season .
4 Then if you feel it is appropriate , address them to their homes and send them by registered mail .
5 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 Check all the facts and refute them with sound evidence .
8 They also learn the position of the wetlands that provide them with crucial staging posts where they can feed and rest before starting on the next part of their journey .
9 As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity .
10 They must be a priority target group , so we can prevent exploitation and discrimination and provide them with adequate training in health and safety and other matters .
11 The qualitative methods provide them with feminist validity , while the quantitative methods ensure the reliability which psychology values .
12 Barber argues that the knowledge and skills of professionals provide them with considerable power and it is therefore essential for the well-being of society that this power be used for the benefit of all .
13 Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences .
14 In each of the two Ranges of the New Forest there is a Head Keeper , with six beat keepers under him , who take censuses of the deer , cull them in due season , guard against poachers and check pests .
15 After cleaning out gutters ( or fitting new gutters ) , test them by pouring water into them ( or use a hosepipe )
16 I now wean them onto prepared food .
17 Cover them in green icing sugar .
18 The Duc d'Orléans refused Stair 's demand to hand over the ships and their contents to Byng but did agree to unload the weapons and remove them for safe keeping to a French arsenal , a notable diplomatic triumph .
19 Model B , on the other hand would effectively ‘ nationalize ’ the 90 or so major institutions and thereby remove them from local control .
20 Remove them by frequent scrubbing and careful drying .
21 Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit .
22 4 Estimate the size of the following angles and list them in ascending order of size in the table below .
23 It was not until 1880 that elementary education became compulsory and the main drive behind the legislation , according to Landes , was not so much the desire to instruct and educate but rather ‘ to discipline a growing mass of disaffected proletarians and integrate them into British society .
24 It was my joy to find old Chinese stories and transcribe them into dramatic radio productions such as ‘ The Good Luck Horse ’ , ‘ The Luck of Shao Nien ’ , ‘ The Poet and the Peony ’ and many others .
25 What I do is chop the luncheon meat into cubes just big enough for a size 8 or 10 hook and mix them with damp groundbait .
26 Project them into profitable change .
27 At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage .
28 The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings .
29 I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan .
30 He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success .
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