Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 2 | The Half House met them round a corner , and Mary Rose exclaimed . |
| 3 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 4 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 5 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 6 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 7 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 8 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 9 | Shall we discuss them over a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 10 | knocking them back a bit |
| 11 | And you can look at it one way , and say , oh I 've got , I 've got two rows here with six in , and space them out a bit so , or give him that so he 's got sort of , two rows with six in , and you say , oh from where you 're looking at it , it 's six rows with two in . |
| 12 | Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins . |
| 13 | The internal-combustion engine probably chews them up a lot more than anything that 's gone before , but the Patients themselves do n't alter . |
| 14 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 15 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 16 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
| 17 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 18 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 19 | Creeping plants , such as Java Moss , can be trained into shapes , perhaps by growing them up a trellis , or over suitable-arranged rockwork . |
| 20 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 21 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 22 | Rub sugar lumps on to the peel of the lemons , holding them over a bowl , until each lump starts crumbling , then start on another . |
| 23 | No that 's part of the the windows washing but I 'll quickly washed over them just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that , is she driving , or is she not ? |
| 24 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
| 25 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |
| 26 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 27 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 28 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 29 | I think it 's the stomach that 's fatter pulls them up a bit . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've known them out a week . |