Example sentences of "[verb] them through [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least .
2 The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand .
3 It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed .
4 This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters .
5 Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning .
6 However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) .
7 Press them through a stainless steel wire sieve .
8 If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber .
9 The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city .
10 In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour .
11 ( v ) Separate the embryos from other cellular debris by mouth pipette , wash them through a warm pre-equilibrated drop of M16 + BSA ( Table 5 ) and culture them in the same medium under paraffin oil at 37 C in 5% CO2 in air .
12 She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids .
13 On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice .
14 He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest .
15 and put them through an educational programme as a conditional of a probation order .
16 You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it .
17 Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels .
18 The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure .
19 With revenues plummeting , airlines clamoured for government support to help them through the bad times .
20 Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias .
21 The Head of Department said he expected that the review would ‘ follow them through the normal day ’ , looking at ‘ the way we run the department ; the way we work according to the syllabus — how we relate to it ; the stock control ; the use of resources ; the teaching content and the skills taught ’ ( verified note of meeting ) .
22 She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter .
23 Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment .
24 ( iv ) Dehydrate them through a graded alcohol series .
25 And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees .
26 The county-wide project would mean premises employing bouncers would have to put them through a four-session training scheme and pay a registration fee .
27 Sex had brought them together , bound them through the difficult and dangerous years when he was actively opposing the authorities .
28 He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life .
29 Since you may well be as unfamiliar with the basic concepts as Duchy 's two directors were , we have followed them through the preliminary learning process .
30 I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases .
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