Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them .
32 Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others .
33 It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church .
34 Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship
35 Fleury was not sure that his own teeth were very sound either so they decided that the best thing to do was to suck the cakes and perhaps dip them in the tea to soften them .
36 As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package .
37 This situation is doubtless taken for granted by today 's generation , yet , less than twenty-five years ago , leading statisticians were expressing concern lest interposition of the machine would so distance them from the data under consideration that the quality of analysis would suffer .
38 ( 110 , p.225 n.2 ) Possibly such claims were put forward even earlier , although one can only infer them from the appearance of closed crowns on the English coinage in the reign of Henry VII .
39 Herbs too are a practical addition so keep them near the back door , perhaps framed with a fragrant low hedge of lavender or santolina .
40 Squinting into the sun gives you lines around the eyes , so keep them in the shade under a wide-brimmed hat or behind a pair of good-quality sunglasses .
41 I mentioned to [ the neighbourhood policeman ] what [ the girl ] had said , who obviously associated them with the police who arrested her father .
42 Somehow she could not help but suspect that he would think it immoral to squeeze extra wages out of his stepfather , only to hoard them beneath the floorboards .
43 Live foods which are not collected from water do not carry the risk of fish diseases , but only collect them from the garden if you use no weedkillers , insecticides and so on .
44 It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division .
45 and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can
46 Well , he only puts them on the
47 he only puts them on the floor .
48 Erm th the general idea is that I 'm actually responding to a request from last years ' student group so that the previous lecturer did pass on to me that the student group had been unhappy that there were too many texts referred to as they could n't necessarily get them from the library and they could n't afford to buy more than one text .
49 ‘ I 'd rather be doing it on my own , ’ Maria responded waspishly , taking advantage of the fact that no one was near enough to overhear them for the moment .
50 Gently fold them into the batter , using a tablespoon .
51 Put the rest of them , I mean , i , i , i , in the storage binder or you know , or you can obviously put them in the active binder if you want to do .
52 Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back .
53 The Scottish Typographical Circular reported of this conflict that " people are beginning to see that making women printers … will only unfit them for the active and paramount duties of female society " .
54 ‘ We should perhaps remind them of the dangers they run , provoking us to … retaliate ? ’
55 Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary .
56 Much prefer them to the open streets .
57 Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer .
58 Er , so stick them in the storage binder please .
59 When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses .
60 ‘ It 's difficult to work out somebody 's background when you only see them on the ski-slopes or fooling around après-ski .
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