Example sentences of "them off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Higgs noticed these stones too and how they ‘ used to take them off the windowsill on the way back one by one ’ . |
| 2 | She 'd pull them off the stalks . |
| 3 | Hibs face a real test of character at Firhill tomorrow after Hearts knocked them off the top of the table . |
| 4 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 5 | Every time he came home he had to scoop them off the surface . |
| 6 | ‘ Good thing it 's Curtius , ’ Magda said , ‘ if'n he blows his brains out , at least we wo n't be all day scraping them off the floor . |
| 7 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 8 | Once aboard , she found she could let them off the leash . |
| 9 | ‘ You can take them off the instant you do n't need them for reading . ’ |
| 10 | Allison , who took over Rovers four games ago after the sacking of Dennis Rofe , has already hauled them off the bottom of the table and claims they are going to be a force to be reckoned with . |
| 11 | This win over their local rivals now means Rovers ' record under Big Mal 's vibrant leadership is one defeat followed by a run of one draw and three victories which have lifted them off the bottom of the table . |
| 12 | A vital win for Oxford it takes them off the bottom . |
| 13 | the goal of the week … has to be the United winner against Stoke … it lifted them off the bottom of the table … |
| 14 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 15 | He says charity shops should be allowed to sell second hand toys as they 've always done and the legislation which took them off the shelves was wrongly framed and should be scrapped . |
| 16 | A lot of them off the field which have got nothing of course to do with him . |
| 17 | If she does create a new four-bead group , she ‘ wins ’ these four beads and takes them off the board , leaving the hole empty . |
| 18 | Throw them off the board on purpose and , you know you lose all your money ! |
| 19 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 20 | ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’ |
| 21 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 22 | Now a police truant squad is out to take them off the streets . |
| 23 | ‘ They have to be tougher than the average kid , I do n't like losers , but once they 're into boxing it takes them off the streets , away from the drugs and alcohol , ’ said Lol , 57 . |
| 24 | ah look after your children , keep them off the streets blah , blah , blah |
| 25 | Keeps them off the streets does n't it ? |
| 26 | ‘ Oh you have n't taken them off the tree ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We played them off the park for the first 25 minutes of the second half . ’ |
| 28 | Lukic was panicking , dealing with Newsome 's backpasses by drilling them off the park headlong into the stands . |
| 29 | If a hawk flies over or a snake appears , he lets the young hop up under his wing and lifts them off the lily pads so that only their legs can be seen hanging down . |
| 30 | More recently Hairy Hands has been reported as wresting steering wheels from drivers ' hands and forcing them off the road , often causing appalling accidents . |