Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] [art] special [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the snake uses its forked tongue to gather scent particles from the air and tastes them on a special membrane , called Jacobson 's organ , at the back of its mouth . |
| 2 | Unless the EC decides to treat them as a special case , it seems the only way out for them will be to give the toys away . |
| 3 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 4 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 5 | IF you have valuables insure them with a special student scheme . |
| 6 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 7 | If you have any special requests you must include them in the special request box on the booking form , but please note that special requests are not guaranteed and are subject to availability . |
| 8 | Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation . |
| 9 | He collected the leftovers in his customers ' beer mugs and afterwards re-sold them as a special brew . |
| 10 | Instead they park them in a special nursery area , packed tightly together so that the loss of heat from their bare bodies is minimised . |
| 11 | Ants can be kept in large glass jars filled with soil or in a wormery ( Chapter 6 ) , but to see them best you should keep them in a special kind of housing . |
| 12 | Truisms like ‘ the world is full of things that have what it takes to be in the world ’ are trivial , almost silly , until we come to apply them to a special kind of durability , durability in the form of lineages of multiple copies . |
| 13 | And on the occasions when there was an epidemic of sheep scab we all went to the sheep dipping tub kept by the Fawcetts , and later the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt , to double dip them in a special drench . |
| 14 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
| 15 | Or they may hope that their contribution to the household economy will restore them to a special place in their parents ' affections . |
| 16 | Answer : You can make all the programs that you always want start automatically by placing them in a special group in the Program Manager called Startup . |
| 17 | Whatever the meaning for those twelve disciples on that short mission ( and the Spirit may well have come upon them temporarily as he did upon the Old Testament of God to equip them for a special purpose ) , it is hard to mistake the shadow this event casts towards the time of the Church , when men sent out by Jesus ( ‘ sent one' is the root meaning of the word ‘ apostle ’ ) would be equipped by the Spirit given them by Jesus , for carrying out Jesus ' own mission in the world . |
| 18 | ‘ People have very quickly got used to the idea of crushing their cans and putting them in the special bins provided . |
| 19 | She nourishes them with a special fluid which exudes from a nipple on the wall of the pouch in which her larva lies . |
| 20 | Our only hope is to capture the undulations by illuminating them in a special way and then photographing them . |