Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] them [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house , and upon thy gates … ’ |
| 2 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 3 | I 'll give them to the dogs . |
| 4 | there you are , drop that in the toilet can you please ? look at them , right , down these stairs this instant , look be careful what you 're doing with that round you , carry it downstairs please , Richard , take , take your space suit off while you walk downstairs otherwise you 're gon na trip over it , here I 'll drop them down the stairs for you there we are you go down those stairs ooh |
| 5 | You might have them in the packs anyway might n't they ? |
| 6 | ‘ Go on , Jim , for Christ 's sake , or we 'll lose them at the lights . ’ |
| 7 | We could hang them on the walls . |
| 8 | The women 's group 's orientation was towards action : ‘ There was no way we could beat them in the courts . |
| 9 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 10 | He could hear them in the rooms above . |
| 11 | I 'd tell them about the plants . |
| 12 | The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits . |
| 13 | She 'd pull them off the stalks . |
| 14 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 15 | Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see |
| 16 | Into these , just a crate , and they used to get the old pigs and they used to shove 'em in there , shove the trap down , and they used to load them on the ships , they went back to Poland . |
| 17 | Oh we used to play them in the streets or anywhere like that . |
| 18 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |
| 19 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 20 | None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above . |
| 21 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 22 | Probably some , who considered the idea of Making Ends Meet unacceptable and unbecoming , i.e. those enjoying the thrusting Live-Now-Pay-Later lifestyle of the 1990s , would think differently if they knew that the cost of borrowing the £5,000 that would extricate them from the consequences of their cavalier attitude would cost them almost another £5,000 . |
| 23 | This would put them among the countries allowed to continue production after the new treaty comes into force . |
| 24 | and also when girls moved in I would visit them in the flats |
| 25 | For my part , I would humbly suggest : ‘ We shall assess them on the beaches , we shall assess them on the landing grounds , in the fields and in the streets … ’ and so on . |
| 26 | We shall fight them at the gates . |
| 27 | Churchill had made a speech after the surrender of France in which he said , ‘ We shall fight them in the fields and in the streets , we shall fight them in the hills , we shall never surrender ’ , and his belligerence was echoed everywhere , not least in the factory where Anne worked . |
| 28 | Churchill had made a speech after the surrender of France in which he said , ‘ We shall fight them in the fields and in the streets , we shall fight them in the hills , we shall never surrender ’ , and his belligerence was echoed everywhere , not least in the factory where Anne worked . |
| 29 | And you will recognise them as the words of Jesus . |
| 30 | Although the various models defy any simple classification , for convenience we will consider them under the headings of thermal , phase change and mechanical models . |