Example sentences of "and [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
| 2 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 3 | This is not , in fact , a problem , since LIFESPAN provides the tools for creating other DCs as the need arises and attaching them to the same package . |
| 4 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 5 | and change them to a bigger size |
| 6 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 7 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 8 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 9 | The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills . |
| 10 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 11 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 12 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 13 | She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair . |
| 14 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 15 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 16 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 17 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 18 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 19 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 20 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 21 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 22 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 23 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 24 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 25 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 26 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 27 | Based in the UK , MAP is an ecumenical organisation that aims to increase media awareness , to encourage critical dialogue with media practitioners and to recognise the underlying values in the media and evaluate them from a Christian viewpoint . |
| 28 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 29 | Of course , this consequence follows because the building society is in effect attracting funds from the public sector and channelling them to the borrowers that we identified in section 4.1.1 . |
| 30 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |