Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not lugging it up them flipping stairs again ! |
| 2 | We owe it to gastronomy to keep them alive . |
| 3 | The complication has less to do with breeding nasty bugs , more to do with keeping them alive . |
| 4 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 5 | He keeps them alive . |
| 6 | Would we wish a return to be days when children were deported for stealing the loaf of bread that kept them alive ? |
| 7 | The traditional way to cook them was fry them alive in hot bacon fat , then add an egg , which had the effect of binding them together . |
| 8 | They appear to survive simply because they are businesses , and it is their commercial structure alone which keeps them alive . |
| 9 | Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ? |
| 10 | He watched their candle moving the shadows around , keeping the end of the world at bay , keeping the two of them alive . |
| 11 | PEOPLE should carry ‘ switch-me-off ’ cards to help doctors decide whether to keep them alive if there is no hope of recovery , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 12 | I wanted to find a compromise in decorating this tank , between a tangled mass of bogwood for the fish to enjoy , and having some water left to keep them alive . |
| 13 | Doctors are obliged by law to keep them alive while there is a chance of recovery . |
| 14 | Among the most important of these indirect effects is the role which test cases can play in politicising issues by forcing them onto the political agenda and once there in keeping them alive . |
| 15 | From their orbital hive-turned-fortress , they would sally out against whoever was left and eat them alive . |
| 16 | Keeping them alive in mind and body is a much more accurate description of what we do . |
| 17 | He caught chickens and ate ( them alive , including the entrails . |
| 18 | Catch some flies , small moths , mosquitoes or other fairly small insects and keep them alive in a jar . |
| 19 | Keep them alive and happy for one to two months . |
| 20 | ‘ You eat them alive . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We could n't have left them alive . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They 're not feeding them , you see , Jim ; they want to see if dream mice will keep them alive … ’ |
| 23 | I hoped to keep one of them alive for questioning , but they fought hard . |
| 24 | I wanted at least one of them alive . |
| 25 | ‘ Keep them alive until I get there , ’ he added as an afterthought . |
| 26 | It made them alive , somehow , and Elizabeth longed to go inside . |
| 27 | There are twenty-eight US passengers on that plane and my Government wants to keep them alive . ’ |
| 28 | Many of them have been slain , and those who still pursue their craft do so in large bands , which means for bad hunting , even while it keeps them alive . ’ |
| 29 | And catch them alive in the burrows . |
| 30 | And we used to catch them alive , take them out , put them in a bag together again , and off home again do you see . |