Example sentences of "[to-vb] them [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and you have to press them down anyway to make them all stick . |
| 2 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 3 | The sonic pulse systems emitted by toothed whales are directional and most species seem to use them not only to detect food but also to make fine distinctions on the basis of the echoes . |
| 4 | The women who come to refuges do so because marriage is unbearable and they have no resources to give them anywhere else to run to . |
| 5 | And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed . |
| 6 | It is vital that our children have the best possible education to allow them not only to have the best possible standard of life and maximise their opportunities , but for the benefit of Britain , so that we can compete in the world in trade and industry . |
| 7 | It 's sometimes possible to approach them closely enough to stick a device like an anemometer , or wind speed gauge , into the gas jet , and by doing this , supersonic speeds have been recorded . |
| 8 | But because both CSPs and more general phonological variables are variety-specific , it is difficult to distinguish them clearly enough to apply the taxonomy more generally . |