Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
| 2 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 3 | And carry them , either carry them , or push them on a two-wheeled trolley , all through the round the lace market to 's , and various other And if I were lucky , and the 's van was going round the lace market , and I 'd got three or four parcels , I used to go with little Tommy and his horse and van , round the lace market , and he was delivering dress goods then . |
| 4 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 5 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 6 | Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels . |
| 7 | Dispose of dirty nappies by flushing them down the toilet , or put them in a sealed plastic bag . |
| 8 | Drain well in a colander and divide them among individual bowls or put them in a large soup tureen . |
| 9 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
| 10 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 11 | From time to time Shelly Films held evening previews of certain feature films , either for clients , or to screen them for the local parent company . |
| 12 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 13 | ‘ He would either go with the victims or meet them at the Macro warehouse in North Acton . |
| 14 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
| 15 | Or give them to a nearby playgroup or primary school , which will welcome any old cards that the children can cut up for collages . |
| 16 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
| 17 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 18 | You purchase players or get them from the free-transfer market . |
| 19 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 20 | When the carrier acknowledges that he holds for and on behalf of the buyer , e.g. by accepting and acting upon the buyer 's instructions not to convey the goods as far as their original destination or to convey them to a further destination , or |
| 21 | or mark them with the black , persistent crows |
| 22 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 23 | Has the Prime Minister seen the prospectus from Pathfinders Repossessions plc , which is a company which proposes to buy repossessed homes at auction and then flog them off or rent them at a huge profit ? |
| 24 | Rows of simple smaller moon shapes in Fair Isle make a very basic but very charming border , or arrange them as an all-over pattern . |
| 25 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 26 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 27 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 28 | So simply avoiding cigarette smoke , household chemicals , food additives and tap water may be enough to eliminate symptoms , or reduce them to a bearable level . |
| 29 | Narrow neutrality consists in helping or hindering them to an equal degree in those activities and regarding those resources that they would wish neither to engage in nor to acquire but for the conflict . |
| 30 | They ignore non-economic criteria , or relegate them to a perfunctory treatment of ‘ corporate social responsibility ’ … |