Example sentences of "[verb] them [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
| 2 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 3 | Both were short , dumpy and energetic and , seeing them scurry together down the street in their black garb , they looked like a pair of hunting spiders . |
| 4 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 5 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 6 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 7 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 8 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 9 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 10 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 11 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 12 | I do n't want them growing up like the Hales . |
| 13 | But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night , so I kept my window open to look out for them . |
| 14 | What do we want them to get out of the advertising ? |
| 15 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 16 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club [ the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ] a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 17 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club ( the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ) a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 18 | And booksellers were ready for it with pretty much the right books at the right prices to enable them to compete effectively for the consumer 's cautiously placed pound . |
| 19 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 20 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 21 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 22 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 23 | She was n't keen on her three rather quieter children being involved , and asked them to return home from the farm if the W children arrived to play . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
| 25 | I want them to hear more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 26 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 27 | And yet , what is required , if teachers are ever to enjoy the prestige of true professionals , is to encourage them to reach out into the society they are there to serve , rather than for them to retreat behind their school walls . |
| 28 | But it is also necessary to avoid keeping them standing outside in the rain , or waiting in draughty corridors feeling unwanted while the meal finishes or the speeches are in progress . |
| 29 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 30 | Justin Simpson , in his article on the Stamford waits in The Reliquary in July 1885 , describes them crying out in the night after the performance of a tune these words by Shakespeare ; |