Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 2 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 3 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
| 4 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 5 | Three more hours of paddling and bailing , bailing and paddling , brought them to the second expected rendezvous , but in the great troughs and high seas the submarine lookouts could miss the torch signal or RG beam from a 16-foot ( 5m ) canoe . |
| 6 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 7 | Attempting to duck the consequences of hard decisions by leaving them to the last possible minute or by creating distance through solely informing parents by letter places the initiative in the hands of others . |
| 8 | Tom gave a slow , satisfied nod and left them after a last reassuring pat on Faye 's shoulder . |