Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing .
2 I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up .
3 Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this
4 In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’
5 ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons .
6 ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation .
7 Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease .
8 a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late .
9 This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service .
10 So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’
11 They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland .
12 Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built .
13 The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing .
14 Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again .
15 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 .
16 At last Cranston finished his further refreshment and , with Benedicta so close beside him his heart kept skipping for joy , Athelstan led them out into the great cleared area of Smithfield .
17 And then he led them out of the small room .
18 Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark .
19 ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’
20 Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper .
21 The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate .
22 So we 've planted a seed and we either get introductions there and then or we 've paved the way to the pick them up at the second appointment .
23 It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed .
24 Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running .
25 Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge .
26 The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey .
27 Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’
28 By promoting economic aspects and bringing them out into the open for everyone to see , we are contributing towards better informed decisions on the part of prescribers and policy makers alike . ’
29 We never got them out in the first place .
30 Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents .
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