Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 2 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 3 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |
| 4 | If Walter Smith is going to continue producing them out of a hat from the reserve team like this , Rangers will remain without peer and the rest will have an even greater excuse for abandoning hope before they start . |
| 5 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 6 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 7 | Margaret and her friends collected old clothes , converted them into dusters and sold them out of a suitcase in the Camden market and to old clothes dealers . |
| 8 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 9 | Well it says in the book , push them back with a stick . |
| 10 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 11 | Tom passed them by without a glance , heading for the door at the very end of the corridor . |
| 12 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 13 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |
| 14 | Invited them out for a drink ? ’ |
| 15 | Pot up the small young plants as ‘ plugs ’ and grow them on in a frame or a greenhouse — or even in a wooden box covered with polythene . |
| 16 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 17 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 18 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 19 | People surged forward , nearly knocking them over as a train came in . |
| 20 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
| 21 | Then stirred them round with a finger . |
| 22 | No , he will be able to sort them out into a short-list of three or four for further interview . |
| 23 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 24 | They happen to do something where there is an enormous organization geared up to pushing them on to a pedestal . |
| 25 | The Dutch parliament has recently decided that owners of contaminated sites should aim to clean them up to a level that is suitable for any use , but has accepted that where such a policy is uneconomic , it would be sufficient to isolate , control and monitor the land . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll finish them off in a fortnight , ’ he said , as he celebrated 31st birthday . |
| 27 | So you 've bribed them along with a promise of sweets |
| 28 | Head seems to work fairly well it 's easily cleaned out easily fed and the cows come to calf we just put them in the pend and after that once they 're a reasonable size we put them through into a byre and it easier to work the situation once the calves are a a fair size and pass the stage especially . |
| 29 | And suddenly he took the rumours and put them on like a coat . |
| 30 | Companies generally take their guests down to Sunsail 's Port Solent base near Portsmouth in the evening , give them dinner and put them up in a hotel . |