Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Imagine a mercantile agent who obtains possession of the goods ( perhaps by borrowing them from the owner ) and who shows them to X , an innocent prospective purchaser . |
2 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
3 | There were thus good reasons for holding dollars but not for holding them in the USA . |
4 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
5 | ‘ Not without telling them about the coins . |
6 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
7 | A similar effect can be obtained for the walls by taking wads of newspaper and wetting them thoroughly before packing them against the walls in papier mache style . |
8 | She left the kitchen to dress while they lamented their miserable exis-tences , and more often than not , she came back from driving them to the bus stop to throw their breakfasts in the garbage . |
9 | Still 's wretched luck initially followed him into management when he was replaced as Maidstone boss immediately after taking them into the Football League in 1989 . |
10 | In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words . |
11 | In either case files can be pulled off the PC or Macintosh simply by selecting them from the user interface . |
12 | In England there was a belief that warts could be removed simply by rubbing them with the tail of a tortoiseshell tom during the month of May . |
13 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
14 | Why did I , why did I do , put them in the machine instead of dropping them on the floor then ? |
15 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
16 | He 'd washed his hair and piled all his plastic carrier bags into a corner instead of strewing them through the house like the clues of a treasure-hunt . |
17 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
18 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
19 | The reason suggested for this is that these girls feel that they should be able to cope with their pregnancy and problems on their own instead of sharing them within the unit , as most other girls do . |
20 | Instead of putting them in the Credit Card Centre 's outgoing mail — they were all addressed to ‘ problem ’ areas — Steve called in the Fraud Section who made sure they were sent registered mail in plain envelopes . |
21 | another paddle you can have instead of having them at the side and have one man and bursar |
22 | That 's instead of er clipping them on , they used to b instead of clipping them on the back you used to rope at front and one at back see . |
23 | We , the Editors of the Medau News , would like to know your views and suggestions on this subject and look forward to printing them in the January issue . |
24 | Bury cuttings to half their depth , either by pushing them into the soil or by lining them along the side of a slit cut in the soil with a spade ( in heavy soil , sprinkle a layer of sand at the base of the slit ) . |
25 | These four factors may be justified intuitively by putting them in the context of the discounted cash flow ( DCF ) valuation model . |