Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats . |
| 2 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 3 | There was always a scramble to obtain them after the meeting . |
| 4 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 5 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 6 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 7 | A manacle secures them to the Dubrovlag . |
| 8 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 9 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 10 | A butterfly sticks them on the leaves of the particular plant that her caterpillars eat ; a blowfly on the dead flesh that her maggots will relish ; and some wasps , for the sake of their young , become body-snatchers . |
| 11 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 12 | A guard ushered them into the Beauchamp Tower and up into Mistress Philippa 's chamber on the second floor . |
| 13 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 14 | Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth . |
| 15 | The curtain of rain caught them up and in a moment soaked them to the skin . |
| 16 | Immediately after his infamous singlet and shorts press conference , French and Fordham woke Wallaby manager John Breen , coach Bob Dwyer and captain Nick Farr-Jones to a meeting to inform them of the happenings over the previous 12 hours . |
| 17 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 18 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 19 | Buyers are given assembly instructions and a video to help them in the building of their car , and Mr Nearn maintains that the kits are not difficult to put together . |
| 20 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
| 21 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
| 22 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 23 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 24 | But he proved right about the size of Switham Thicket , for a bare quarter of a mile brought them to the outskirts of the other side , and almost immediately the horse was turned into a walled aperture of crumbling stone , its high , rusty iron gates wide open . |
| 25 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 26 | Wise move : Breeders of barn owls will need a licence to release them into the wild from January to stop them being freed into unsuitable areas ill equipped for life in the wild . |
| 27 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 28 | The date on which they were re-charged was in 1973 and was used as a pretext to deprive them of the right to be tried by a jury . |
| 29 | But the Cup defeat brought out the team 's fighting qualities , and a resurgence took them to the League Championship with 58 points , four ahead of Aston Villa , and with 118 goals . |
| 30 | You will need a rope to lower them to the ground as they are heavy — throwing them down is dangerous . |