Example sentences of "them [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh was watching them suspiciously from a nearby table . |
| 2 | Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika . |
| 3 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 4 | The next day , place the black fondant tiles all over the roof , in neat overlapping rows , securing them on with a little water or royal icing . |
| 5 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 6 | It is pesticide-free and traps male moths by luring them on to a sticky pad with the aid of a sex attractant ( a pheromene lure capsule ) given off by female moths to attract a mate . |
| 7 | The reason for this may well be that the hospital consultant is reluctant to let go medical responsibility for former patients and thrust them on to a local GP , but he is not normally easily available when off duty or working in a clinic many miles away . |
| 8 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 9 | But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’ |
| 10 | She designed a print room based on an eighteenth-century concept , by cutting out black and white prints and their hanging bows and pasting them on to an apricot Regency background . |
| 11 | She turned Florence into the field and stood over the milk pails , stirring them slowly with a hazel stick . |
| 12 | Connie buzzed them in for a joyous greeting from Hurley , Colonel John Sasser , the Defense attaché , and one of Buck Revell 's FBI team , but there was n't much time for celebration because Hamadan was wanted elsewhere for debriefing . |
| 13 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 14 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 15 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 16 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 17 | Even when reviews do exist , tracking them down for a particular title can be difficult . |
| 18 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 19 | The two belligerents having accepted this text in principle , Perez de Cuellar 's task , involving a bout of shuttle diplomacy , was now to pin them down to an actual cease-fire on the ground . |
| 20 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 21 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 22 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 23 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 24 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 25 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 26 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 27 | Communication policies are changing rapidly , yet there is a need to assess them constantly from an ethical perspective . |
| 28 | He took off his spectacles and polished them thoughtfully with a red snuff-handkerchief . |
| 29 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 30 | Having selected the deeds and documents from the deeds packet , you then need to photocopy them , and pin them together with a front sheet , which is entitled " Epitome of Title " . |