Example sentences of "[verb] them [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 4 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't want them growing up like the Hales . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What do we want them to get out of the advertising ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ; |
| 19 | But it 's the war , ’ she added without guile , and because the chief had taken a liking to the woman with the thick Liverpool accent who met her gaze without flinching , she told them to cut along to the galley ; if they were lucky they might just make standeasy . |
| 20 | Nicandra could n't watch them going out of the room together . |
| 21 | Recent storms have obviously set them loose , causing them to wash up on the shoreline . |
| 22 | She could feel them pierce through to the back of her head . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've seen them go up in the sky , ’ said Masklin . |
| 24 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 25 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 26 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 27 | He squatted and started to pick them up , then let them drop back to the floor and just crouched there and put his hands over his face and started to cry . |
| 28 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 29 | A sudden movement or an abrupt noise will send them skittering back to the safety of the water . |
| 30 | This irritates the worms sufficiently to cause them to crawl up to the surface immediately , where they can be collected easily in daylight . |