Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] them [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 2 | It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them . |
| 3 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 4 | When the sales er marketing exec goes round to the golf club to sign them up in the contract with the contract we will print one or other or both . |
| 5 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 6 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 7 | All sociologists whose work takes them out of the library and brings them into contact with living beings are certain to use the interview in their work . |
| 8 | The whole household walked them out to the big Ford at the end of the lane . |
| 9 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 10 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 13 | Rob flew with calculated care , mindful of the lives of his crew and the need to get them back to the safety of the debriefing room and steaming mugs of rum-laced tea . |
| 14 | I have taken this opportunity to point them out to the Minister and I hope that something good will come of it . |
| 15 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 16 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 17 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 18 | " I 'm sorry , can I … " she motioned towards the door , and he helped her through the packed people , using his elbow to get them out of the way . |
| 19 | Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland . |
| 20 | They suffer far more psychological shock if an event hits them out of the blue . |
| 21 | By the time Luke 's driver delivered them back to the flat , Folly had managed to recapture most of her earlier carefree enthusiasm . |
| 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 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 24 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 25 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 26 | The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp . |
| 27 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 28 | Another group whose origins and way of life marked them out from the Serbs were the gypsies ( cigani or romi ) who are still to be found throughout Serbia and Macedonia . |
| 29 | It was a relief to hand them over to the kennelmaid . |
| 30 | Local authorities should be given some money to get them out of the mess . |