Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barak instinctively stuffed them back into his pocket then rubbed his hands together nervously . |
| 2 | He successfully fought them off and they fled empty-handed . |
| 3 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 4 | ‘ A well-paid job , a pretty girl or a desirable residence may each be located only five minutes away and yet be effectively inaccessible because one 's inadequate skills , social talents or incomes effectively place them out of bounds … . ’ |
| 5 | My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders , thereby keeping them out of custody . |
| 6 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 7 | However , if we transpose notes into different octaves and use Schoenberg 's method of omitting certain notes only to include them later on , we can disguise the system and the effect can be excellent . |
| 8 | We hear endlessly of Rodrigo taking various fortified cities and castles — only to lose them later and often in a matter of months . |
| 9 | The expected backlash arrived this afternoon at Dixon Park when a brilliant display of attacking football against hapless Ballyclare Comrades produced six goals — four of them from David McCallan — enough to see them safely through to the last eight of the TNT Gold Cup . |
| 10 | Energy is released when the nuclei of the light atomic elements join , so bringing them together is the primary goal . |
| 11 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 12 | They both played for Ulster in the Seventies but representative appearances together passed them by . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 15 | Never evade their letters or telephone calls , it will only make them less amenable to your predicament . |
| 16 | Even so , a process of gradual denial creeps into Ealing 's output , most clearly represented in Train of Events ( 1949 ) , a film that brings together many of the characters who people post-war movies , only to kill them off or put a stop on their moral infractions . |
| 17 | Well you better price them accordingly . |
| 18 | As you gently lay them in . |
| 19 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 20 | … I think you can only treat them similarly if all other things are equal , if they 're discharging into the same sort of watercourse in the same sort of position . |
| 21 | An expert in the field could be expected not only to classify them correctly but would also know what to do about them . |
| 22 | ‘ Alas I only met them once . |
| 23 | I reasoned like you , my lord , that they 'd rid themselves of the load , it would only slow them down . |
| 24 | But she did not speak the words , only whispered them despairingly inside her head . |
| 25 | You can only affect them peripherally . |
| 26 | She does n't much want them actually to touch her . |
| 27 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
| 28 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time , only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied , or at the door of a friend of my mother 's with a boy she fancied for me inside . |
| 29 | The chimpanzees can only catch them regularly by working in teams . |
| 30 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |