Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen .
2 Imagine a mercantile agent who obtains possession of the goods ( perhaps by borrowing them from the owner ) and who shows them to X , an innocent prospective purchaser .
3 It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency .
4 All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year .
5 Either issue all the discs separately before offering them in a boxed set , or issue the boxed set first and then issue the discs separately : that is the only fair and honest way of marketing complete sets .
6 Indeed , I have blundered straight away by placing them in a context of the 1960s and 1970s , as though in 1970 they stopped !
7 Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets .
8 A similar effect can be obtained for the walls by taking wads of newspaper and wetting them thoroughly before packing them against the walls in papier mache style .
9 Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent .
10 Answer : You can make all the programs that you always want start automatically by placing them in a special group in the Program Manager called Startup .
11 If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber .
12 Still 's wretched luck initially followed him into management when he was replaced as Maidstone boss immediately after taking them into the Football League in 1989 .
13 In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words .
14 In either case files can be pulled off the PC or Macintosh simply by selecting them from the user interface .
15 In England there was a belief that warts could be removed simply by rubbing them with the tail of a tortoiseshell tom during the month of May .
16 Still , he thought , Holly would no doubt think twice before following them into a place like that , and to keep beside the brook might well prove safer than wandering about the fields in one direction and another , with the risk of finding themselves , in the end , back at the warren .
17 Such materials have the advantage that they can be made permanently hard by heating them to a temperature around 15°C , for which reason polymers with this sort of constitution are called ‘ thermosetting ’ .
18 Why did I , why did I do , put them in the machine instead of dropping them on the floor then ?
19 And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab .
20 The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin .
21 He 'd washed his hair and piled all his plastic carrier bags into a corner instead of strewing them through the house like the clues of a treasure-hunt .
22 It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ .
23 ‘ I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh or to move their mind with tickling laxity and affect them as a stage player used to do , instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God . ’
24 When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent .
25 The reason suggested for this is that these girls feel that they should be able to cope with their pregnancy and problems on their own instead of sharing them within the unit , as most other girls do .
26 Instead of putting them in the Credit Card Centre 's outgoing mail — they were all addressed to ‘ problem ’ areas — Steve called in the Fraud Section who made sure they were sent registered mail in plain envelopes .
27 Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ .
28 But communism abolishes eternal truths , it abolishes all religion , and all morality , instead of constituting them on a new basis : it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience . ’
29 another paddle you can have instead of having them at the side and have one man and bursar
30 Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect .
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