Example sentences of "them under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played tennis with them under the willow-trees by college , playing not well but with a brisk gusto . |
| 2 | It would be virtually impossible to bring them under the control of one super-agency . |
| 3 | He dropped the lot into a shoe box and pushed them under the bed . |
| 4 | Richardson drove to his ‘ one-room place ’ in McLean with the photocopied papers , including the rogue memorandum , locked in the boot of his car ; took them out , put them under the bed ‘ within arm 's reach ’ ( as secret agents would ) and went uneasily to sleep . |
| 5 | Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon ; |
| 6 | Shops took incandescent bulbs off the shelves and kept them under the counter ; the only light bulbs in sight were the high-efficiency versions . |
| 7 | And they have led them under the false belief that a negotiated solution was seriously pursued . |
| 8 | Our mountains have survived for millions of years , bearing witness to a history of violent , volcanic activity , glaciation and erosion , but ironically it 's the invention of the internal combustion engine and lightweight waterproof clothing that has put them under the most severe pressure yet . |
| 9 | So the Act provides for the appointment by the Prime Minister of a Tribunal with very limited powers to regulate the way in which Ministers use the very extensive powers given to them under the Act . |
| 10 | She inspected them under the warehouse light , her gimlet eyes roving over their grotty tack , the horses ' condition , the state of their shoes . |
| 11 | I place the rod in the rest and begin to feed pinches of flake into the current in a spot which will carry them under the raft . |
| 12 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 13 | must also insure him or them in respect of any liability which may be incurred by him or them under the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to payment for emergency treatment . |
| 14 | Their forwards will also need to scrummage far better than they did against Armary , Genet and Gallart , who had them under the cosh from the second minute . |
| 15 | To guard against accidents — such as the loss of the first packet , for example , or a furious spate of activity when the chemists ' were closed — he bought another packet of condoms and secreted them under the lining paper of his sock drawer . |
| 16 | In the autumn of 1930 , the sub-committee was instructed to consult the governing bodies , and the medical and surgical staffs at the voluntary hospitals , ‘ in order to enable the county council to discharge the functions transferred to them under the Local Government Act 1929 , Section 13 , relating to the provision of hospital accommodation ’ . |
| 17 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 18 | SunSoft will begin offering Adobe imaging products for the Solaris 2. x operating system from the middle of next year , SunPics will have the stuff in Unix SVR4 versions of its print system during the second half of 1993 — both of them under the Open Look graphical interface ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 19 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 20 | Or is this the time to bring home a few ingots , dig up the cellar and bury them under the floor ? |
| 21 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 22 | ‘ Where a man , having the animus furandi ( see ante , para. 1469 ) , obtains possession of goods by frightening the owner , as by threatening him with temporary imprisonment unless he delivers up his goods , and the owner does deliver them under the influence of the fear inspired by his threat , this is considered such a taking ( although there is a delivery in fact ) as to constitute larceny : Reg. v. Lovell ( 1881 ) 8 Q.B.D. 185 . |
| 23 | She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table . |
| 24 | The only fight Laker would have with the big airlines thereafter was in the American courts , suing them under the anti-trust laws for driving him out of business . |
| 25 | Its two main features are that it lifts cooperative R&D ventures from the suspicion that they are illegal per se and puts them under the rule of reason , and it provides a registration system which protects firms from treble damages in the event that they are subsequently deemed to have violated the antitrust statutes . |
| 26 | You must tie them together and bury them under the great gate of the city . |
| 27 | " Find them , " he told Desimir , " buy them for slaves , trick them or kidnap them , but bring them back somehow so that we can bury them under the great gate and build our city of Skadar . " |
| 28 | I dig a hole with the hand trowel and pop them under the courgette together with the hands , feet and eyes ( which I 'd already collected ) . |
| 29 | Here they are , love — I was just going to put them under the pillow . ’ |
| 30 | Herbaceous forms grow as tightly-packed mats ( Saxifraga , Stellaria ) , rosettes ( Draba , Potentilla ) or cushions ( Silene ) , habits that keep them under the snow in winter and close to the warm soil surface in summer . |