Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the home government always resisted this simple but dangerous solution , passing up chances to expand territorially if that meant the helots could stab them in the back — or eat them raw . |
| 2 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 3 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 4 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
| 5 | Within hours of the reports appearing in the press , vets and cat sanctuaries were flooded with requests to have cats destroyed or to find them new homes . |
| 6 | Suppose , for example , a particular spirit has chosen this lifetime to learn how to deal with the temptation to do deliberate wrong to others — whether by spreading malicious lies about them , stealing from them or causing them physical harm . |
| 7 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 8 | The program enables you to make designs , print them out , or transfer them direct to the E6000 console . |
| 9 | Do not subject the person to any sudden extreme changes of temperature — so do not put them next to a fire or give them hot water bottles or heavy layers of clothes or blankets . |
| 10 | If you do use sub-sections you can number them ( 1 , 1.1 , 1.2 , etc. ) or give them short titles which indicate what they contain . |
| 11 | Buy plenty at a time — or get them free from clinics — to avoid running out at an inconvenient moment … |
| 12 | But I do believe that we should seriously look at getting say , internal usage bags for nutrients er bags for lime , anything that we have printed , we ought to look at the and say to Mike or get 'em printed or something . |
| 13 | Were you to fend them off or drive them crazy ? |
| 14 | The brewers have until November to free up thousands of pubs by selling them or leasing them free of the tie . |
| 15 | Some hospitals are already trying to make mealtimes more fun by having children 's favourites on the menu or giving them child-friendly utensils , but many hospitals lag behind . |
| 16 | 5 Be wary of topics such as politics , sex , race and religion which are very effective in getting a discussion going , as people often have strong feelings on them or find them interesting , but there is the danger of hostility being generated and the discussion getting out of control . |
| 17 | The Government get frequent representations about the need to reduce burdens or to keep them light . |
| 18 | The Manchester doctor Thomas Percival reported on a " confinement " which " either cut them off early in life " or rendered them sick and feeble . |
| 19 | It stole away all other colours or rendered them purple , black . |
| 20 | The madam might occasionally slap the girls or call them rude names , but in the end she wants the customers to buy at least one of them . |
| 21 | They convened Days of Truce at which to reach mutual agreement on ‘ clearing ’ bills against the accused ( that is , finding them not guilty ) , or ‘ fyling ’ them ( ‘ fouling' or finding them guilty ) . |
| 22 | Look carefully at any windows in hallways , corridors and on stairs to decide whether you should curtain them , blind them , shutter them or leave them alone . |
| 23 | This may involve suggesting such employees take early retirement or making them redundant . |
| 24 | Er asking people whether they were favourable , or mark them favourable or not favourable and so on . |
| 25 | As a new appreciation of the Arctic 's importance has evolved , the littoral states have tended either to exclude non-Arctic states from activities in the area , or to offer them less-favoured treatment . |
| 26 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 27 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 28 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 29 | The president has not exonerated the officers , nor declared them innocent . |
| 30 | Drain the prawns thoroughly and pat them dry on kitchen paper . |