Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] them [prep] [noun] " 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 | And despite complaining about charges for dental checks , it would not consider removing them for years . |
| 3 | The F-A will now decide whether it should take action against the men which may include banning them from football for life . |
| 4 | If you have any further donations of clothes and intend passing them onto Jean at Church would you either leave them in your car boot or give Jean a call first , so she can pick them up … ! |
| 5 | Garden centres stock sachets of blueing powder for hydrangeas , but the most reliable way is to continue growing them in pots . |
| 6 | During that period , we want to do all we can to reduce it , especially among young people , and we want to avoid targeting them in advertising . |
| 7 | The police team had gone from her house , she had managed to avoid seeing them at work by her long session with Gabriel and John Coffin in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 8 | Yeah they , they 've played in red and white , red , white , red shirts white shorts , but they , they used to play in claret and blue I can remember seeing them in claret and blue when I was a small boy but erm |
| 9 | But , it 's probably a good long-term bet because of its more professional drawing tools , and extra features like converting text to outlines , 50 levels of undo , 200 named layers and locking objects in place to avoid moving them by mistake . |
| 10 | As there is no ‘ use by ’ date on these kits at the moment , it is probably best to avoid buying them from shops which have a very low turnover of stock . |
| 11 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 12 | Right , so that 'd be lovely if you do n't mind having them after school . |
| 13 | I dislike using them in conversation , for they can add a measure of artificiality to what should otherwise be casual . |
| 14 | ‘ I remember seeing them in churches , carved in stone . |
| 15 | For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home . |
| 16 | The Samaritans have threatened to call in the police if I do not stop pestering them with phone calls , and Alcoholics Anonymous refuse to come out for a drink and discuss my problem . |
| 17 | Leave out obscure remarks , jargon , and private jokes , otherwise you 'll have to keep explaining them to people all evening . |
| 18 | Like the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century , nobody quite knew what all its decrees meant until they started putting them into practice , and a lot of them , and I suspect a lot of Vatican Twos , need to be interpreted . |
| 19 | If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead , then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F , and higher than in all the water groups A — C. If , however , the increased incorporation is associated with memory , then E should be equivalent to B and lower than either D or F. We needed , of course , to repeat the experiment with enough birds — eventually , a dozen in each group — to be sure of the results — but when we analysed the data , they were unequivocal , and I ca n't resist showing them in Figure 10.8 . |
| 20 | In the circumstance of their redundance , the usual prescription has been the demolition of the buildings and sale of their sites , but it is likely that where redundancy affects noteworthy buildings — and an increasing number of Roman Catholic churches , lacking the exemption from ‘ listing ’ currently enjoyed by the Anglican churches , are being listed as buildings of architectural or historic interest — the church hierarchy may have to consider offering them for conversion to alternative uses . |
| 21 | This simply means that instead of bending and scuffling around for saucepans stacked up in a dark base unit , try hanging them from hooks near the sink ( where you are going to fill them with water ) or near the stove . |
| 22 | It seems I keep running them under Tom 's nose |
| 23 | no just keep putting them on top and when you get to the bottom |
| 24 | This lasted for half an hour ; however , thick fog and bad bumps kept throwing them off course . |
| 25 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 26 | Well they 've started giving them in schools , you 've got your tab you 're y aim , it 's like in that piece of card with one one to ten on |
| 27 | ‘ I think taking them to Devon is a great idea , ’ she 'd enthused . |
| 28 | But unable to find the right person , Nikki has now decided to take the children with her , although it means uprooting them from home and friends . |
| 29 | Well , yes they do overwhelm you until you start associating them with services that are provided by that finance with the people whose lives are affected by them , and erm you break them down and obviously all councillors , I think , have areas of special interest and so you become much more familiar with particular areas of the Council 's expenditure erm rather than necessarily being very , very precisely informed about every single area . |
| 30 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |