Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's preparing and packing up two complete racing operations and sending them to competitions in Indonesia and New Zealand . |
| 2 | We must put it in the hands of trained Islamic scholars and get them to run tests on it . |
| 3 | Earlier the prince met top Korean businessmen and urged them to heed the teaching of ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius by balancing economics with the protection of the planet . |
| 4 | His main hobby is to take derelict old buildings and convert them into habitable homes that are monuments to the Conran design credo . |
| 5 | And she cut a dozen and a half splendid blooms and laid them reverently in Sally-Anne 's trug . |
| 6 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 7 | You 'll have to make some little baps and bring them |
| 8 | There was unrest in some twenty-six English and Welsh towns on 20 October , the day of George 's coronation , by which time the new monarch had already begun to turn out the old Tory ministers and replace them by Whigs . |
| 9 | To buy some guided missiles and to hide them in the ground , |
| 10 | The story goes that an angry auto body painter noticed his masking tape only had adhesive along its edges and told the salesman : ‘ Take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it . ’ |
| 11 | N.B. : We have only listed a few Zionist atrocities as to list them all , as with the crimes of the IRA , would fill a book or two . |
| 12 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 13 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 14 | In consciousness alone is it possible to confront at least some empirical properties and apprehend them directly , and if consciousness is analysed in terms of some purely non-mental notion this grasp is lost ; just as , in the analysis of thought , if the irreducible generality of thought is analysed away , our ability to think and refer is wished away with it . |
| 15 | He was without doubt the very worst kind of news reporter , taking a few bare facts and embroidering them into a story ! |
| 16 | He chose four different coloured capsules and tucked them discreetly beneath his plate . |
| 17 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 20 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 21 | Chronically dry soils lack organic buffers and are often strongly sodic , saline , acid or alkaline , with free soluble salts that make them unattractive for plant colonization . |
| 22 | Britain should stop giving ‘ piffling ’ sums of aid to Latin American countries and help them find alternative crops . |
| 23 | I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire . |
| 24 | On Dec. 16 the Netherlands authorities expelled 43 Russian Jews and put them on an aeroplane to Israel after their applications for asylum were turned down ; a further nine were expelled on Dec. 23 . |
| 25 | It managed very few semi-natural woodlands and understood them very little , and had routinely fertilised , ploughed and drained its own forest soils so that long-term changes such as those feared on the continent would be masked by its own management . |
| 26 | I have also had three two-hour sessions at the job agency which has the training facility , and , having taken down some scribbled notes and typed them up have gone back over it all to improve my notes , so that I can continue re-reading them till I improve my knowledge . |
| 27 | The American Constitution provides a federal system : it recognizes states as distinct political communities and assigns them sovereignty over many issues of principle . |
| 28 | A response was that member States would be unlikely to give organisations such far-reaching powers and to empower them to implement such an agreement , unless the intention was to create a supra-national organisation . |
| 29 | Frank Capps of Pathé made some additional unauthorized pressings and sent them to Louis Sterling of Columbia in London . |
| 30 | The trombones should only be used for such bass parts as suit them well . |