Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] them [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Duke and his brothers began trimming sideways across the face of the waves , as their ancestors had done , rather than riding them straight into the beach . |
| 2 | It has been found that taking them away from the contamination and giving them a healthy diet for a month can boost their damaged immune systems for up to 18 months . |
| 3 | Attention should surely be directed towards eliminating such anomalies , rather than entrenching them further into the law . |
| 4 | This latter period saw the creation of a labour code ( 1943 ) limiting the functioning of unions to a local and plant level and bringing them tightly under the control of the Ministry of Labour . |
| 5 | Because of the caves ' varying depths , 25 minutes decompression was required before removing the two front mounted cylinders , and pushing them ahead through the 16 inch high Cobble Inlet passage . |
| 6 | Suddenly , after three or four years of silence , as they stood side by side in some rented school hall , slackening their bows and cleating them away in the lids of their violin cases , they began to talk . |
| 7 | Well , we already do that at the moment , trying to assess a myriad of individual benefits with people filling up forms and sending them all over the country . |
| 8 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 9 | Zeinab added to his unease by opening her handbag , taking out the three small bottles of perfume and dropping them deliberately on the floor . |
| 10 | Then I got a clear view of the mink , which was grabbing tufts of grass in its mouth and dragging them backwards into the den . |
| 11 | In practice , those with established political views will have no difficulty in recognising comments with which they disagree and putting them promptly in the Favourable to Them column . |
| 12 | She flicked him a quick glance , then concentrated on lifting two green-patterned mugs from the cupboard and placing them neatly on the marble counter , all too aware that he was watching her every move . |
| 13 | ‘ Certainly the play advocates a continuation of the war , as plays nowadays are required to do , ’ said Deems , folding his hands and placing them gently on the table before him , as if to show that he concealed nothing . |
| 14 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 15 | The second one is erm a bottom up study which is based on today 's commitments but projecting them forward into the timescale in which we will have the aircraft and looking in that way to see how many and and in what way we would need them . |
| 16 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 17 | Their performances have , over the years , given ordinary people a much-needed reason to feel pride in their native city , while binding them together in the sharing of two terrible tragedies . |