Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
| 2 | New technology has already enabled an ever-widening range of jobs to be moved out of the office , allowing staff to carry them out from their own homes with obvious benefits in terms of reducing office overheads as well as enabling businesses to recruit from an additional pool of people who , because of location in remote rural areas or conflicting domestic responsibilities , might otherwise be ruled out of employment . |
| 3 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 4 | One way to see plenty of birds at close range is to attract them in to your own garden . |
| 5 | And this is the first job that we have to do really , is to sort them out into their different categories . |
| 6 | The only slight cloud hanging over the Australian World Cup celebrations was the realisation that Nick Farr-Jones would not be there to lead them out in their next match . |
| 7 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 8 | The bantams were waiting for her to let them out of their safe house . |
| 9 | If you have children of school-going age , the law is n't going to chuck them out of their settled home . |
| 10 | Boilies actually encouraged the carp to suck them back to their pharyngeal teeth in order to crush them ; this in turn ensured that the large hook entered well into their mouths . |
| 11 | When people do so , the health-care system and the political machinery of the community are fully prepared to back them up in their unhappy and anything-but-free choice of symptoms . |
| 12 | The Hollow Men lack a bit of spark and passion , but what they really need to lift them out of their mid table rut is just one killer tune to help bring their genial pop to the attention of a wider audience . |
| 13 | And if all else failed it would probably be an effective , if unsubtle way of letting his wife know that something rather more serious than Marriage Guidance was required to get them out of their marital difficulties . |
| 14 | These are sent to patients with a request to take them along to their general practitioner within 10 days . |
| 15 | The obvious alternative is to take them along to your local ‘ paper igloo ’ ( a blue bin like a postbox , usually alongside bottle banks ) for recycling . |
| 16 | He predicts that intense X-rays will destroy hazardous organic wastes without ever having to take them out of their 55 gallon drums — a much safer and cleaner operation than most clean-up techniques . |
| 17 | This , for Nelson , is the soul of Berlioz 's art , the musical equivalent of jeweller setting gemstones in precious metal , not merely to hold them in place , but to show them off to their greatest advantage . |
| 18 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 19 | A MOTHER fighting for custody of her two young sons has been ordered to hand them back to her estranged American husband from whom she fled a month ago . |