Example sentences of "them [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , the Dwarfs saw in the savage human tribes potential allies to help them fight the Orcs and , ultimately , to help them win back the lost Dwarf fortresses . |
| 2 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 3 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 4 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 5 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 6 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 7 | ‘ Let's go across the top of the hill and see them come out the other end of the tunnel , ’ Peter said to his sisters . |
| 8 | It might be better for them to prop up the Ottoman empire for a while longer , but at the same time to keep their options open by maintaining contact with the various factions amongst the Serbs . |
| 9 | With a queue of industrialized and developing countries , from Israel to Pakistan , eager to achieve the status of nuclear weapons powers , it is all too easy for them to leach out the necessary technology from ‘ peaceful ’ atomic programmes . |
| 10 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 11 | and let them find out the hard way ? |
| 12 | This service gives clubs and organisations the opportunity to invite a speaker from Scottish Nuclear to give a talk and slide presentation to help them find out the true facts about us . |