Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] them [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 2 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 3 | Hard-up families in the stockbroker belt are begging state schools to bail them out as the recession bites deeper . |
| 4 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 5 | It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them . |
| 6 | The crowd was shouting and gesticulating , parents lifting children on shoulders to keep them out of the crush , fists punching the air , workmen 's tools being waved like weapons . |
| 7 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 8 | Mrs Parvis scraped them back into the pot . |
| 9 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 10 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 11 | Hitch motioned them back onto The Sandhopper . |
| 12 | When the sales er marketing exec goes round to the golf club to sign them up in the contract with the contract we will print one or other or both . |
| 13 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 14 | They followed , Adam first , and Fand led them along by the stream . |
| 15 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 16 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 17 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 18 | All sociologists whose work takes them out of the library and brings them into contact with living beings are certain to use the interview in their work . |
| 19 | The whole household walked them out to the big Ford at the end of the lane . |
| 20 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 21 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 22 | Burnley put them out of the Youth Cup on 14.12.93 . |
| 23 | Alan ushered them down towards the table . |
| 24 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 25 | British troops shepherded them out of the monastery buildings into 19 Warrior armoured vehicles . |
| 26 | Then again the painting illustrates in a very concrete fashion the pull Picasso felt between the desire to give forms an explicit , volumetrical treatment , and the need to flatten them up onto the picture plane ( compare , for example , the almost sculptural treatment of the breasts and the arms with that of the head , which is rendered in terms of two flat planes ) . |
| 27 | They were all Altun family retainers of long standing — men whose first and only concern would be to protect the interests of the Kha-Khan — and Burun watched them out of the corner of his eye in case it occurred to Nogai to send Sipotai warning . |
| 28 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 29 | Christina joked , before Stephen guided them out of the lobby and down a path past a row of mahogany trees separated by bright thickets of hibiscus . |
| 30 | So Tom took them along past the new Pump House , the old Turkeycock School and down Main Street to the ancient Sand Gate . |