Example sentences of "them [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 2 | In view of the central position of the egg and sperm cell in reproductive biology , we need to look at them in a little more detail . |
| 3 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 4 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 5 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 6 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 7 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 8 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 9 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 10 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 11 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 12 | No , take them down a bit |
| 13 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 14 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 15 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 16 | The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 embodied his division of the world between them along a not-very-precisely defined meridian line running about 45° West . |
| 17 | The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate . |
| 18 | The fellow grinned and took them along a dark , smelly passageway into another chamber where the keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert , was squatting behind a great oak table like a king enthroned in his palace . |
| 19 | They must have walked for about another ten minutes and could glimpse the blue wood-smoke rising above the trees from Godstowe village when suddenly the porter stopped , turned left , and led them along a narrow beaten trackway into the forest . |
| 20 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
| 21 | Littering the slopes of the volcano are thousands of large bombs ejected by the eruption , some of them over a metre in diameter . |
| 22 | The bulk of the programme would then outline in some detail the specific projects being funded , and the resources allocated to them over a 3–4-year period . |
| 23 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
| 24 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 25 | We took about £150m out of them over a couple of years . ’ |
| 26 | Management should effect redundancies at one point in time rather than spreading them over a long period . |
| 27 | These children had suffered 25 attacks between them over a 59-day period . |
| 28 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |
| 29 | Many commonly-prescribed drugs increase the sensitivity of the skin and eyes to ultra-violet light — particularly if you take them over a long period of time . |
| 30 | Rub sugar lumps on to the peel of the lemons , holding them over a bowl , until each lump starts crumbling , then start on another . |