Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Beleaguered businessmen welcomed the moves to help them out of the recession , but some sectors of industry were unhappy . |
| 32 | She decided to play them out at the game they had chosen . |
| 33 | Taking her cup and saucer over to the sink in the small kitchenette , she began to rinse them out under the tap . |
| 34 | Since they had become used to hospitals it was believed both unfair to them and impracticable in resettlement terms to ship them out to the community . |
| 35 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 36 | In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ . |
| 37 | When they left he did n't offer to walk them up through the Grove and Carrie was n't sorry : she felt too chokey for talking . |
| 38 | Climbing one branch higher , Virginia reached out and stroked the cat 's head ; then , gently , she placed her hand round its hind legs and began to ease them out of the fork . |
| 39 | Then again the painting illustrates in a very concrete fashion the pull Picasso felt between the desire to give forms an explicit , volumetrical treatment , and the need to flatten them up onto the picture plane ( compare , for example , the almost sculptural treatment of the breasts and the arms with that of the head , which is rendered in terms of two flat planes ) . |
| 40 | John Goold , a research student from the University of North Wales , said there had been a remarkable development when one of the whales broke away from the other five as they attempted to usher them out into the Pentland Firth for the second time . |
| 41 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 42 | I have taken this opportunity to point them out to the Minister and I hope that something good will come of it . |
| 43 | Erm where I find I ca n't understand the regional accent I 'm going to give them back to the person who recorded them |
| 44 | you 'll have to put them up on the ceiling |
| 45 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 46 | We have got to put them out of the game . |
| 47 | Nor was she concerned by his threat to put them out of the house . |
| 48 | I think we 've got to put them back under the home office and make sure they 're treated as young criminals and not as social cases . |
| 49 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 50 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 51 | Its only idea for schools is to put them back in the power of local authorities . |
| 52 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 53 | Both at home and at school they usually have to remain on the floor and Alice does n't always remember to put them back in the bag . |
| 54 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 55 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 56 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 57 | It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them . |
| 58 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 59 | The crowd was shouting and gesticulating , parents lifting children on shoulders to keep them out of the crush , fists punching the air , workmen 's tools being waved like weapons . |
| 60 | According to a recent report from the Consumers Association , a dose of only 3g of iron is enough to kill a toddler , yet few vitamin and mineral supplements are sold in child-resistant packs , so it 's vital to keep them out of the reach of children . |