Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] them [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 2 | Hard-up families in the stockbroker belt are begging state schools to bail them out as the recession bites deeper . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 5 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 6 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 7 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 8 | British troops shepherded them out of the monastery buildings into 19 Warrior armoured vehicles . |
| 9 | By abolishing their organs of self-government , attempting to enrol them in secular educational institutions , and trying much harder than earlier legislators to force them out of the countryside into the towns , the Minister of State Properties intensified the subversion of Jewish communal life which had begun when community leaders had to make invidious choices about recruits for the army . |
| 10 | The Tories have perhaps three years before back-bench revolts and by-election defeats force them back to the country . |
| 11 | They dig for days to get them out of the ground , and hide them jealously from other Yahoos . ’ |
| 12 | Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | When ejaculation occurs the contents of the epididymis , the stored spermatozoa , are ejected along the vas deferens into the urethra where other muscles pump them out through the urethral meatus . |
| 15 | The White Paper recognised that unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants to force them out of the property , which could then be let to new tenants at the higher market rent , and in an effort to prevent this , the harassment provisions of the 1977 Protection from Eviction Act were strengthened and a new right of compensation — civil law damages-was introduced in cases of unlawful eviction . |
| 16 | No other home could be found for these cars at short notice , so Cohen 's men were called in with oxy-acetylene torches to break them up on the spot . |
| 17 | This splendid achievement was due of course to exceptional wind conditions thrusting them along at the remarkable average speed of ninety miles per hour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well you see , you actually see tho them little punks collecting them up at the end of the night do n't you ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | bodies sweeping them out of the bay . |
| 22 | and then you take your long end and you wind above covering the edge and overlapping and then the low , then covering the edge and overlapping , there and again you keep working your way up and down , a figure of eight until you get to the end of your bandage then tie away from the body in your reef knot , either you tuck your ends in or if that 's awkward you can just put a sticking plaster over the ends to get them out of the way like that , so just tuck the ends in and I do n't think your casualty 's going to need a sling for a little graze like that |
| 23 | Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec . |
| 24 | The pressure became too much as sponsors , fly-by-nights and average New Zealanders sent them off to the World Cup with the message that all New Zealand expected them to win . |
| 25 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |
| 26 | Beleaguered businessmen welcomed the moves to help them out of the recession , but some sectors of industry were unhappy . |
| 27 | It seems to take ages to get them back from the printers . |
| 28 | Cohen 's men broke them up on the spot . |
| 29 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 30 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |