Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
2 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
3 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
4 | I 've seen my mam take sheets off a bed and tear them up in squares . |
5 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
6 | I 've heard them before like that , distanced but there , singing beyond the night in a daytime of their own . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | You can fool them once by realigning in the middle of the trading day , as Spain did recently . |
9 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
10 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
11 | The darkness beneath the cover encourages the worms to tunnel close to the inside of the glass so that you will be able to see them clearly in their burrows . |
12 | It should be noted that , despite the historical primacy of arithmetic calculation as the raison d'etre for computers , we ought perhaps to see them instead as symbol-processing devices . |
13 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
14 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
15 | For the birds , otherwise what will they have to see them through till spring ? |
16 | Fellowship Afloat have the use of Dawn , a fully-rigged barge , until the end of April but need another vessel to see them through until September . |
17 | The components are of magnitudes 4.4 and 5.7 , and since the separation is almost 44 seconds of arc it should be possible to see them individually with × 20 binoculars , but I have never been able to do so with certainty . |
18 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
19 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
20 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
21 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
22 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
23 | Er we 'd like to see them out with us to give the company as much harassment . |
24 | Thirdly , there is the possibility that abnormalities judged by us to be psychotic in afunctional sense were actually due to organic brain diseases unrecognised at the time ; for reasons discussed previously this would rule them out of court for our purposes . |
25 | He would rule them out of necessity . |
26 | Although they are somewhat late in entering the bids scenario , I believe we should not rule them out since having talked to my partner in Italy , he regards them very much as an niche buyer . |
27 | But people in this group , often unemployed or single parents on low incomes , had not even been trying to get most forms of credit because of their own feeling that their personal circumstances would rule them out as applicants . |
28 | And when you were doing these with lots of you 've got now got W X Y and Z in , when you 're adding up if you lay them out like that |
29 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
30 | It turns them away from looser , unstructured organizations . |