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Simple sentences
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
A small child fell into a pit that wasn't properly secured.
If your dog is to be healthy and happy, you have to take care of him properly.
You've been properly led up the garden path.
Food must be chewed well to be digested properly.
Mrs. Brown warned Beth that if she didn't eat properly she would be permanently overweight.
The motor does not function properly.
The man in charge of the merry-go-round decided to make sure everything was working properly.
Are you brushing your teeth properly?
The machine broke because he had not looked after it properly.
This medicine, properly used, will do you a lot of good.
If it is used properly, this tool will be a great help.
I can't get the door to shut properly.
Certain poisons, properly used, are useful.
You must eat properly to keep up your strength.
He doesn't have the ability to do the work properly.
Musical talent can be developed if it's properly trained.
The toilet doesn't flush properly.
Chew your food well so it can be digested properly.
Please wash your hands properly before eating.
Brush your teeth properly before going to bed.
If you feed your dog properly, you can increase his lifespan.
I think it's time for me to show you how to do that properly.
Movie subtitles
You just need to do your job properly. And I just need to do mine.
Well, anyway, that brat hasn't done anything properly.
Do you think he is doing the judgment properly?
We weren't even going out properly at the time and you were acting like an arse.
I only got to know him properly recently when I got shoulder-tapped to take over his gardening role in Wadsworth.
Properly kept records are paramount!
I never could hate properly.
Had I been able to exploit it properly I could have made a fortune.
Had I had time to exploit it properly, I could have made a fortune!
Let's do this properly and wake the missus with a song.
So, let's get the ship running properly and get back to where we were before.
Now you'll be well advised, sir, to call them back again and this time do it properly. Do you understand me?
You're very tired, and you haven't been eating properly. and you're very distressed.
If we were to be generous, be properly. Give them an explanation.
This car needs to be properly cleaned and waxed.
Women who don't behave properly at the Hippo-Palace, out they go!
Me, not behaving properly?
I sent your mother away because she didn't bring you up properly.
You're far too pretty and thoughtless to manage a house properly.
Not made properly.
You'll need to get properly outfitted before you leave tomorrow.
Well, did you have it cleansed properly?
Can't you knock properly?
You may not believe it, but I assure you they were properly dressed.
I've taken great pains to arrange your diet properly.
I'm calling for you tomorrow night at 10 and you're gonna be dressed properly in white.
They placed a special magnetic stripe on top. If this isn't dealt with properly, whether it's the Royal Family or South Korea, it'll both be finished.
I say. even so, there's also a need to re-investigate properly, there must be no mistakes. But even if it's the United States, there's also no reason to suddenly do this!
You just need to do your job properly.
He must eat properly!
We do not believe in prying into our employees' private lives. provided, of course, they behave properly in their functions.
I was properly fed up at Oxford.
Properly lighted, they're even more impressive.
I light a cigarette it lasts for a long time, my lighter doesn't work properly.
I thought you were the type who'd live properly.
Now, then, play the whole thing through and play it properly.
There is still new earth in abundance that could feed many more people if it were cultivated properly.
News and current affairs
Politicians have failed to implement properly the treaties adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit.
So the schizophrenic American economy is a sign that the world is entering an economic era of truly wonderful things - if only we properly, and patiently, grasp them.
Why didn't the American press corps cover the Bush administration properly for its first five years?
But the EU can overcome national impediments by developing exemplary universities and research centers that would be properly European, serving as an incentive to quality and reform at the national level.
Tropical climates and urban slums are humanity's front line against pandemics, and they should be equipped properly.
The World Bank, if properly led, can play a key role in averting these threats and the risks that they imply.
Handled properly, the simultaneous rise of China and India could be good for all countries.
At the Fukushima site, the backup power supply, essential for maintaining vital safety functions such as cooling the reactors and spent fuel rods, was not properly protected.
This time, unlike at the London G-20 meeting, they should do the job properly - both to protect our climate and to reboot the global economy.
Properly designed and executed, institutional reform could also increase BCB accountability to society at large while guarding against undue political influence and lobbying by the big banks.
After all, one plus one doesn't only equal two; put together properly, it can add up to 11.
By contrast, their greatest failures have come from funding grandiose projects that benefit the current elite, but do not properly balance environmental, social, and development priorities.
But China is too big and too political to be pushed so fast that it is not permitted sufficient time to adapt properly.
Much of the emotional force of Mao's revolution derived from the widespread sense of unequal treatment and humiliation by foreign powers, and this revolutionary fervor has never been properly interred.
Even before that, she would have noticed that the child had not turned properly, and that major problems were on the way.
If she does report the matter to the authorities, the case will almost certainly never be properly investigated, nor the perpetrators ever prosecuted.
Handled properly, our efforts to cope with the financial crisis can reinforce our efforts to combat climate change.
Properly recycled savings, including corporate profits, could go back mainly into high-return public- or private-sector investments.
A former Al Qaeda member, for example, recently stated that the UK authorities' failure to explain properly why it had not intervened in Syria's civil war risked radicalizing more Muslims.
Coincidentally, the deadly attack on Gaza came at the same time that a clutch of America's most distinguished would-be Middle East peacemakers published books about how the task should properly be tackled.
Indeed, the international financial crisis, if handled properly, may also be turned into an opportunity to reach a win-win solution for both climate protection and economic development.