Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again .
2 In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter .
3 Vivien had some friends still up at Oxford and had arranged to meet them for lunch at the Randolph Hotel .
4 We want to see them in action against South Africa .
5 In the afternoons fishermen in small skiffs laid nets along the low island of reeds which lay between us and the main channel , returning to gather them at night .
6 Their religious faith has sustained them in sickness , and in health has prompted concern for the ills of others .
7 But unlike Labour , who just want to extend national insurance contributions to all levels of income , we want to consolidate them into income tax .
8 If they do , you can concentrate on the substance , but if not you will need to provide them with background material .
9 Miller has seen them in action and concedes : ‘ They are in great shape . ’
10 Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship .
11 Many people have been glad of this device over the years , which has saved them from death or serious injury .
12 The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster .
13 As your stock of effects grows , you will need to catalogue them by tape-number and counter-reference so that you can find them easily when you need them .
14 She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill .
15 The study 's author , Michael Cameron , thinks that roads should be treated like telephone lines or the electricity supply : if customers want to use them at peak times , they should pay more .
16 Now they want to use them at home .
17 yeah cos I want to put them on top
18 It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice .
19 Meanwhile , ideas for new contrasts and effects keep popping into my head and I can hardly wait to put them into practice .
20 you wan na see the spellings in here , you want to leave them in Ton
21 As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge .
22 These people and a host of others provided ideas and helped to put them into effect ; the guiding hand and political boss was Franklin Roosevelt himself .
23 Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used .
24 Alright cos I think we 've been sent these on approval to see if we want to adopt them for course material
25 While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination .
26 Inevitably , this has brought them into competition for limited resources with the other activities of the polytechnics and colleges .
27 This has brought them into conflict with the fishing industry as the harvesting of abalone is commercially important .
28 The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement .
29 The taxman ought to require companies to reveal at the end of each tax year how much each company car insured for private use has cost them in depreciation , insurance , servicing and fuel .
30 He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check .
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