Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing .
2 I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up .
3 Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this
4 In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’
5 Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running .
6 If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter .
7 But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’
8 Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government .
9 They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age .
10 General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s .
11 Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances .
12 Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army .
13 However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’
14 Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence .
15 It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for
16 MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign .
17 It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish .
18 Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence .
19 So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King .
20 I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first
21 " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . "
22 This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) .
23 It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel .
24 And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again .
25 In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap .
26 I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training .
27 Prestatyn had to rely on Nick Bradley 31 and skipper Chris Young and Mike Williams 14 each to get them up to an inadequate 84 .
28 I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come .
29 CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division .
30 If their work is seasonal , do n't forget to change them back to a standard adult food ( so-called ‘ maintenance food ’ ) when they 're not working .
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