Example sentences of "we [vb base] them [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 2 | And now this spineless crowd of chancers demands that we back them against Lamont 's minions [ and their threatened imposition of VAT on books ] because of their contributions to knowledge . ’ |
| 3 | What is important is the discovery that saying these things can actually make us feel better , but only if we say them with sincerity . |
| 4 | He thinks that we will never deal intelligently with these questions if we confuse them with questions about what is good in itself . |
| 5 | We put them to bed , we wake them up , we laugh and we cry with them ’ ( Berridge , 1985 , p. 54 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 7 | These highly specialised ‘ Sky Pictures ’ as we describe them in Chapter Four , are strictly ‘ one-off ’ types , reflecting the artistic skills of the maker . |
| 8 | The various types of radiation have different wavelengths ; if we consider them in terms of increasing or decreasing wavelength , the types of radiation blend gradually from one to the next . |
| 9 | And even today , what messages are we transmitting to children and their peers when we exclude them from participation in some school activities ? |
| 10 | The laws of science , as we know them at present , contain many fundamental numbers , like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron . |
| 11 | For we know them by heart after 18 long years , |
| 12 | ‘ We import them from St Vincent , ’ Stephen said . |
| 13 | The structure and patterns of spoken language are distinct from those of writing : it is rare , for example , for a speaker continuously to use complete sentences as we understand them in writing — particularly in a situation where interruption is both accepted and expected . |
| 14 | Happily , we find them at home ‘ sitting on their front door in the cool of the evening , enjoying a song and a glass in a quiet way ’ . |
| 15 | We compare them in order to see not what each is like but in what respects they are like each other . |
| 16 | We pay them at proof stage because that 's the second time we get any money from the client . |
| 17 | We value them as part of out conservation and education work . |
| 18 | She says the birs are very good — as long as we keep them in families and feed all the young that 's all the parents mind about . |
| 19 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 20 | We use them as rubbers . |
| 21 | He said oh we use them as ramps . |
| 22 | We should be in the habit of asking questions of ourselves as much as we ask them of others . |
| 23 | We do them in physics . |
| 24 | In the sections below we divide them into policies affecting imports , exports and countertrade . |
| 25 | One of the problems that will be encountered is that we may find words which are obviously complex but which , when we divide them into stem + affix , turn out to have a stem that it is difficult to imagine is an English word . |
| 26 | One day they suddenly say , Well yes you can actually , we call them minus numbers , negative numbers , directed |
| 27 | We group them into species merely as a convenience ; if we did not do so , we could not give them names : hence ‘ nominalism ’ . |
| 28 | Hens are galleon-hulled : we take them by storm , |
| 29 | With other feelings we may be burdened by their strength , yet still be free enough to choose whether we express them to others by word or action , indulge them or keep a tight rein on them . |
| 30 | This is the fashionable contemporary view ; but the fact remains that such children , whether or not we regard them as monsters , did exist . |