Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] them [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the RSPCA 's intention to try and sedate the animals before taking them to a sanctuary . |
| 2 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 3 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 4 | GDA , as part of the SEN Scottish Defence Initiative , is pro-actively addressing the needs of defence dependent companies by assisting them in a programme of new market identification and diversification . |
| 5 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 6 | Russell Kulsrud of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ( PPPL ) believes that by polarising the deuterium atoms before feeding them into a fusion device , it may be possible to accelerate the rate at which D-T reactions occur . |
| 7 | In time the dog should come to accept your slippers without viewing them as a potential threat . |
| 8 | Once the girls are at playgroup , Faith spends the rest of the morning catching up on chores before collecting them for a leisurely lunch . |
| 9 | Then check your guesses by measuring them with a protractor . |
| 10 | Collinson was meticulous in his careful distribution of plants and seeds always including instructions on growing them in a manner approximating to their native conditions , as carefully described by John Bartram . |
| 11 | This has meant , for example , that despite some valiant efforts Marxism has been ultimately unable to deal with other important social dimensions such as race and gender differences without reducing them to a mere aspect of class oppression and class struggle . |
| 12 | Scald and skin the tomatoes by placing them in a bowl , pouring boiling water over them , counting to fifteen before pouring off the hot water and replacing it with cold . |
| 13 | You can insert comments into assembly language programs by preceding them with a semi-slash ( \ ) . |
| 14 | Indeed there is a sense in which the clarity of his spiritual and theological doctrines inhibited clarity on political issues by relegating them to a position of relative unimportance : they led Anselm to believe that the system of joint secular and ecclesiastical responsibility for the functioning of the Church was as acceptable as any other . |
| 15 | He got rid of the sheets by putting them on a chair near the passage-way to the bedroom . |
| 16 | Our only hope is to capture the undulations by illuminating them in a special way and then photographing them . |
| 17 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 18 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 19 | Do you avoid the responsibility of countering sexist attitudes by viewing them as a natural part of the society 's framework which students expect you to reinforce ? |
| 20 | What differentiates true experiments from non-experimental enquiries is the attempt , either in the laboratory or field , to produce an effect among groups which have been randomly formed ; in the simplest experiment , the researcher deliberately alters the X values of an experimental group , and sees what effect this has on their Y values by comparing them with a control group . |
| 21 | ‘ I had no qualms about putting them in a sale of fine art , ’ said manager John Anderson . |
| 22 | Cheer up dull-looking cabinets by painting them in a high gloss or eggshell finish . |
| 23 | The ultimate composite materials capitalise on the inherent strength and lightness of reinforced resins by deploying them in a sandwich construction . |
| 24 | Make sure your house is thoroughly draught-proofed by testing windows and doors by closing them on a piece of paper . |
| 25 | McAdam 's system , which involved his surveyors checking the size of stones by passing them through a two-inch ring , was soon adopted by the turnpike trusts . |