Example sentences of "[vb base] them [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's more of a trick to see if we can get artistic freedom within a business structure — to see if we can create things and sell them without charging five times our cost . ’ |
| 2 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 3 | Yet Account Executives ( AEs ) push them into investing in futures capital they can not afford to lose by underplaying the extent of the gamble , emphasising the potential gain . |
| 4 | At this stage we merely introduce them in passing ; we will return to them in greater detail later on . |
| 5 | To make the most of fragrant flowers such as these sweetly scented golden and white freesias and white lilies , display them by massing the flowers closely together in side-by-side containers . |
| 6 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 7 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 8 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 9 | As new treatments and technologies proliferate and new needs are identified these demands escalate , but even as early as 1954 , the then Minister for Health , Enoch Powell , discovered that it became a " positive ethical duty for ( providers ) to beseige and bombard the government and force or shame them into providing more money … and then more again " ( Powell 1966 ) . |
| 10 | They warm them by pressing them against brood patches , areas of skin naked of feathers which a bird may develop specially for the breeding season or have permanently on its breast concealed by the long feathers growing around them . |
| 11 | Woody shrubs too depend on winter snow for protection against extreme cold and wind abrasion , which shape them by killing exposed growing points . |
| 12 | Trick them by hiding the leaf you want in a bunch of something useless , or even poisonous . |
| 13 | Well this is a marvellous new form of economics , if we could just create things and er export them without getting paid for them and it would n't us . |
| 14 | If someone is hell-bent on controlling you through criticism you stop them by agreeing with what they say ( 'Yes , you 're quite right about the report' ) and then remaining quiet . |
| 15 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 16 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 17 | Or stop them from ticking . ’ |
| 18 | Erm do you erm drive after people and stop them from driving fast ? |
| 19 | Such risk-avoiding moves did not , however , stop them from continuing to deepen their involvement in the economy by other means . |
| 20 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 21 | Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying . |
| 22 | ‘ It is shocking that Unionists should attempt to use bullying tactics to instill fear into staff and stop them from voicing what they believed to be genuine concerns . ’ |
| 23 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 24 | Okay what I want you to do is to get twelve of them first and put them into see how many rectangles you could make . |
| 25 | Prevent them by showering frequently , and always wear cotton underwear and absorbs perspiration and allows skin to breathe . |
| 26 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 27 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 28 | But county hall staff say there are practical problems which prevent them from laying speed monitoring cables . |
| 29 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 30 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |