Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats .
2 But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them .
3 Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others .
4 When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time .
5 And they 're not getting them at the moment .
6 If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side .
7 Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ?
8 Cos I just fancy them at the moment .
9 One always sees them at the airport in Geneva — they 've got a numbered bank account in Switzerland
10 At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there .
11 But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man .
12 But if you have others which I do not deal with satisfactorily then please raise them at the end . ’
13 Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time .
14 We did n't have them at the back either , for that matter .
15 They did n't have them at the bookshop I went to , they 'd never heard of the magazine , and a friend of mine who writes poetry said he was certain it did n't exist . ’
16 Do n't even tell them at the end .
17 He will then answer them at the council meeting .
18 ‘ United have emerged as favourites now and that suits me fine , as long as we are up there challenging them at the end of the season .
19 Either visit them at the Bohunt Centre or phone Liphook 725001 or Petersfield 0730 64887 .
20 They 're chewing up the lawn but Carl there 's nowhere else to put them at the moment .
21 To please him , she travelled , learnt languages , read all the guide books to the cities he insisted they visit , became a sexual virtuoso , developed opinions on the classics and on contemporary literature , and learnt never to voice them at the dinner table unless asked .
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