Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’
2 Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere .
3 He preferred outwork : " In a factory you confine them to the hours the master pleases , in the cottage they work very often 15 or 16 hours . "
4 Removal of British troops from Northern Ireland or confine them to barracks .
5 ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours .
6 Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " .
7 I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds .
8 Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl .
9 But they raised the question of authority only in the most ambiguous terms : ‘ we have yet made no mention of change in authority nor has it even entered our hearts , but seeing that France and the Queen Regent here , her priests , etc. , intend nothing but suppressing Christ 's evangel … we are fully purposed to seek the next remedy and withstand their tyranny ’ .
10 John is convinced visitors bring nothing but good to York .
11 These acts , whether in Northern Ireland or on the mainland , in London or outside , bring nothing but feelings of utter revulsion to every British citizen , except the handful of warped minds who commit such atrocities .
12 Bring nothing with you , ’ she had advised and , laughing uproariously , told me to keep the taxi window up .
13 take him on the outside , take him on the inside , take him on the outside , inside , outside , let him through outside , inside , in squeeze them between the lot of them look
14 The humour inheres not just in the daffy selection of cultural allusions ( their native French accordion , some flamenco guitar , a few African horns ) but also in the way they take stiff , formal tempi ( waltzes and tangos ) and mockingly squeeze them for their stateliness .
15 Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and
16 waves push me to the side
17 What do you want now , ah , that 's it push me over you are n't half cheeky , no wonder Mary tells me off the way I treat ya , ah ?
18 I " fackins I commend thee for that !
19 According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman .
20 Make yerself at 'ome , said Mr Piggott , passing her an out-of-date copy of the parish magazine .
21 Will the hon. Gentleman please lay them on the table ?
22 Others lay them in the stems , in the roots or in buds .
23 The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 .
24 Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides .
25 Go into the wardrobe in our room , get the guns and the ammunition and bring them with you .
26 I have n't no , I never bring them with me of course .
27 And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest , to the door of the tent of meeting .
28 On 11 February 1322 he recalled his favourites ; on 14 February he called upon Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke , justice of the Forest south of Trent , to arm a ‘ suitable number ’ of foresters and bring them to Coventry .
29 The bishops hired spies and informers to track down dissenting preachers and bring them to trial .
30 The Rev. Owen could therefore use sign language , and together with another clergyman , encouraged the young man to seek out as many local deaf people as possible and bring them to church services .
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