Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] them [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 2 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 3 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 4 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 5 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 6 | Hard-up families in the stockbroker belt are begging state schools to bail them out as the recession bites deeper . |
| 7 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 8 | He says the countryside brings in tourists and the attractions teach them more about the countryside . |
| 9 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 10 | It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Their farewell party is a sham and a mockery , a pretence that a great future awaits them instead of the fear that the next great event in their lives may be their death . |
| 13 | The train , carrying up to 500 passengers in 12 coaches , ploughed into the heavy seats at top speed dragging them underneath for a mile . |
| 14 | IT was out with the old and in with the new and despite the result , Darlington manager Ray Hankin still found much to praise about Quakers ' performance after another home defeat sent them closer to the Fourth Division . |
| 15 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 16 | The car took them away from the town , out through the flat fields and the irrigation pipes that ran along beside the road . |
| 17 | Mrs Parvis scraped them back into the pot . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In an entire lunch-hour , those same members may produce only half a dozen verbal transactions between them , yet a multitude of non-verbal signals binds them together in a group . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 22 | Edward gave them only until the following morning . |
| 23 | Hitch motioned them back onto The Sandhopper . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Allen hit the post Byrne had one cleared off the line … a win would have shot them up the table defeat leaves them too near the bottom … |
| 26 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 27 | Bruce 's far lighter cavalry cut them off in a flanking movement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They followed , Adam first , and Fand led them along by the stream . |
| 30 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |