Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 5 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 6 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 7 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 8 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
| 9 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
| 11 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 12 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 13 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 14 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 15 | Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar . |
| 16 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 17 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 18 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
| 19 | Nevertheless there is little doubt that in the cases of Frederick and Joseph at least a feeling that an enlightened ruler ought to be above merely personal and family considerations , that it was his duty to sacrifice them ruthlessly on the altar of the State , was a factor in their behaviour to their own blood relations . |
| 20 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 21 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 22 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 23 | I bang on them , drag them all over the place , throw them around ! ’ |
| 24 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 25 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 26 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 27 | And the boyfriend -when the mother kicks them out of the home — the boyfriend says , " Uh-oh , she 's out on the street now , and pregnant . " |
| 28 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 29 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 30 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |