Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] them [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of warriors collect from the huge Masai district to have their heads shaved by their mothers before undergoing rituals to launch them on their new — somewhat dull — life as elders . |
| 2 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |
| 3 | Rhodri watched them with his hooded , wary eyes , and said nothing . |
| 4 | When the young are older , able to run with her , the vixen shepherds them to their new home , induces them to move in and somehow makes sure that they are disciplined enough to stay underground in this new home even when she is not with them . |
| 5 | It was alleged ( a ) that the plaintiff was possessed of the goods ; ( b ) that he accidentally lost them ; ( c ) that the defendant found them ; ( d ) that the defendant converted them to his own use . |
| 6 | So instead of renting out the planes from the Blue Max museum , the team came up with a plan to use them in their own production . |
| 7 | However , even when the genetic indices are expressed in money terms , farmers and their advisers will need help to interpret them for their own individual situation in these early days . |
| 8 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 9 | The law had them in her cloudy embrace and was spilling out of their eyes and lips her deathly must . |
| 10 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 11 | DAVID CAMPESE , whose genius inspired Australia to the world title 12 months ago , is on course to help them in their 1995 defence . |
| 12 | Even in the half-tones of night she could see the narrowing of those dangerous sapphire eyes , see sparks of desire bringing them to their full colour . |
| 13 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
| 14 | Of course in order to be effective anti-viral agents they must at some stage be dependent on a viral enzyme to convert them into their active form , or they must selectively inhibit viral enzymes directly . |
| 15 | After settling the children into their hotel , the team took them on their first visit — to Disney 's Magic Kingdom , a giant playground of spectacular rides . |
| 16 | Discharging the jury after a plea from defence lawyers , judge Verney reminded them of his earlier warning . |
| 17 | The obvious unfairness of such poverty side by side with conspicuous affluence reminded them of their vulnerable parents back home . |
| 18 | The two men told Mrs Robinson to take them to her rich friends . |
| 19 | ‘ So we find ourselves moving this new technology to consumer markets , co-operating with entertainment and TV companies , and at the same time working with [ information technology ] consulting firms to help them with their key applications . |
| 20 | As for the Archduke , though I personally prefer a more tautly sustained sense of direction in the opening Allegro moderato , this performance as a whole reveals them at their best , with a truly rapt and spacious slow movement as prime proof of their vision . |
| 21 | It is tempting to buy a small unit of Wolf Riders and use them to race ahead of your army , move around the enemy 's flanks , and maybe to attack his war machines before he has a chance to use them on your main force . |
| 22 | PUPILS at De La Salle RC School , Carr Lane in Liverpool , will tomorrow be awarded a certificate from a health charity to reward them for their hard work in fundraising . |
| 23 | Just as the concentration on individual managers isolates them from their proper context and makes them almost personally responsible for local policy variations , so the concentration on the processes of local politics isolated these from other sets of socio-economic processes . |
| 24 | The Marshal slipped them into his top pocket . |
| 25 | This is the ‘ psychic trailing ’ phenomenon , when a cat that has been left behind by its owners follows them to their new home . |
| 26 | When the wind dropped an occasional rumble in the distance reminded them of their first taste of war 's excitements . |
| 27 | Certain collections Mickey Mouse ephemera or period memorabilia need a range of different treatments to display them to their best advantage : dot pictures and plaques round the wall , arrange toys and crockery on shelves , lay rugs on the floor . |
| 28 | As the first land-based creatures would need a tougher , armoured skin to protect them from their new environment , it is likely that these were the first amphibians . |
| 29 | Also , you could put your regular fans on a mailing list , writing to them every month to inform them of your next gigs and urging them to bring more of their friends along , in return for a back stage pass to Wembley when you play there ! |
| 30 | Other team members , the bull-grapplers , hurled themselves on to the bull 's horns to pad them with their own bodies and make the beast lower its head ( Figure 50 ) . |