Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 2 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 3 | Be very careful of old fluorescent light tubes , which can explode if dropped , and never puncture old aerosol cans or throw them on a fire . |
| 4 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 5 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 6 | Failure to achieve this goal at the outset may result in a patient who depends on others for insulin injections , misses injections or does them with a very poor technique . |
| 7 | Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ? |
| 8 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 9 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 10 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 11 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 12 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 13 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 14 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 15 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 16 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 17 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 18 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code . |
| 20 | Must go back to the kids and see them to the bus . |
| 21 | The law student learns much of his or her law from decided cases , public attention is inevitably focused upon the adversarial contest , civil and criminal procedure is lengthy and complex , books on the English legal system ( including ours ) devote a considerable amount of space to litigation , and procedure tends to individualise grievances and tailor them to the adversarial model . |
| 22 | Apparently , they consider that their responsibilities end when they have unpacked their baggage of trophies from the record offices and arranged them in a convincing pattern . |
| 23 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 24 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 25 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |
| 26 | It is also the centre of a men-only pilgrimage in February , when local farmers bring in handfuls of hair cut from the tails of their animals and burn them before the sanctuary as an offering to St Blaise , as the patron saint of stock-breeders . |
| 27 | The pinder , whose job it was to round up stray animals and keep them in the pinfold , to be released on payment of a fine , was also known as the axeman . |
| 28 | They are always ready to rescue and support sick or injured animals and help them to the surface to breathe , in the same way that mothers and ‘ aunts ’ will help their young to take their first breath . |
| 29 | Can you name the animals and match them to the correct countries ? |
| 30 | On Dec. 16 the Netherlands authorities expelled 43 Russian Jews and put them on an aeroplane to Israel after their applications for asylum were turned down ; a further nine were expelled on Dec. 23 . |