Example sentences of "[n mass] [coord] [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other .
2 He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming .
3 The count simply abandoned the small , expensive aircraft and led them to the car .
4 In three days time , after acclimatization training , the Russian lads were to take delivery of the aircraft and fly them back to Irkutsk by way of Yakutsk .
5 The discourse analyst attempts to discover regularities in his data and to describe them .
6 The other exploits the existence of regional earnings data and treats them as being influenced by local labour market conditions .
7 I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again .
8 After the incident Ninham , of Hilda Street , gave both boys £5 and told them to keep their mouths shut .
9 On his own initiative Alexander went to the mutineers ’ barracks and persuaded them to lay down their arms .
10 But , predictably enough , the three turned up with three moose and bargained them all aboard , one on each wing , the third across the fuselage .
11 ‘ Wedgwood 1993 offered us the opportunity to welcome customers to out factory and headquarters and to talk them through our various new products and promotional initiatives .
12 ‘ I want you to get on to your divisional headquarters and ask them to organise a search of the moor in the neighbourhood of Jordan 's farm .
13 I allowed a couple of hours for this to mix with the original water then netted the goldfish and placed them in their new environment .
14 When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig .
15 But there is , th th there is the promise in , down in verse eleven , for thus says the Lord God behold I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out .
16 Gwion ushered them about like sheep and positioned them along the wall .
17 CHANGES in the Sheep Annual Premium Scheme regulations means that sheep farmers will have to count their sheep and record them from January .
18 Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter .
19 Such transfers need to be undertaken with care to avoid damaging the fish or subjecting them to sudden temperature changes .
20 For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share .
21 ‘ As a young child I pinched some prunings from my dad 's forsythia and planted them , ’ explains Ric of his beginnings .
22 Unfortunately , you obviously ca n't go and buy all the fish and throw them straight in , nor can you go and buy fully-grown specimens to fill the tank on this sort of budget .
23 Most of the ‘ nasties ’ likely to get into your tank through the tap or from the fish and feeding them , can be removed chemically .
24 If you have been unable to detect the early symptoms and the disease has progressed ( very common with ponds where fish can easily hide or where water clarity is poor ) you will have to catch all the affected fish and treat them in a salt bath .
25 The procedure is to remove some of the gut contents from ‘ affected fish and place them on a microscope slide .
26 Accordingly the fast-sailing Brixham smacks arrived to purchase the fish and race them to Portsmouth .
27 Then for hours we gutted the living , flapping fish and threw them into baskets to be carried below and put on ice .
28 Most of the information I 've got is about residential homes and that is because Social Work Services Group is an awful lot better at pulling together statistics and putting them out again than the Scottish Home and Health Department .
29 ‘ You could catch trout and smoke them if you had to , ’ I said .
30 A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) .
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