Example sentences of "and [verb] them [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The suggestion was made that there should be community discussions with LEDU , that West Belfast people , in the absence of ideas from the IDB , are going to have to come up with their own ideas and develop them in conjunction with the universities , industrialists , and so on .
2 Social groups create deviance by making rules whose infraction constitutes deviance and by applying those rules to particular people and labelling them as outsiders .
3 I tipped about half of the cash into the box and then took a couple of shirts from the second bag and laid them on top of the remaining cash .
4 On every anniversary of the crash she has picked small branches from the same tree and laid them on Day 's grave .
5 Martha took out the two tiles and laid them in front of him .
6 What about a chess-playing machine , programmed to examine the board and then ‘ imagine ’ thousands of possible moves and evaluate them in relation to each other ?
7 Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months .
8 It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth .
9 The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder .
10 One of the sentries took their horses and led them across Tower Green , now ankle-deep in icy slush , to where a depressed-looking Colebrooke was waiting .
11 Perhaps even more than in the case of energising Anglican evangelical clergymen like William Marsh , in the ranks of evangelical nonconformity the powerful leadership of some ministers shaped the attitudes of chapel communities and led them into collaboration across denominational and church/chapel lines .
12 Wearing the briefest of briefs , red-faced Joe played on until the referee , Mr Jones , very kindly removed his own shorts and lent them to Storey .
13 Tommy gave straight answers and expected them in return .
14 They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs .
15 Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union .
16 And helping them with advice as well .
17 16.30 Teachers should encourage pupils to read a variety of genres : eg autobiographies , letters , diaries or travel books , as well as short stories , novels , poetry and plays , and introduce them to literature written in English from different countries .
18 The computer accepts wrongly-spelled words , nonsense words and rude words and displays them on screen in the story to the amusement of the class .
19 The effect of that test would be to pick out those reckless killings which occurred when D had already manifested substantial moral and legal culpability , and to classify them as murder .
20 The declared aim of such finance pirates is to break up the giants , and sell them off bit by bit .
21 Steve says the small scale dealers buy 50 tablets from bigger dealers , and sell them on weekends before clubs open , or once they 're inside .
22 She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country .
23 Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch .
24 Lending institutions now sell more and more of their mortgages to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac , which in turn package them into securities and sell them to investors .
25 We would would go out with catapults and shoot chickens — pow — and sell them to restaurants .
26 ‘ We could take them home and sell them as pets .
27 They 'd been designing tube amps for decades , and manufacturing them on site , whereas other companies were perhaps wanting to get into the tube amp market from scratch .
28 Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch .
29 For this team game , get two paper cups and make them into button catchers by piercing a hole in the bottom with a needle or pin and threading through a length of reasonably strong cotton .
30 Another 6 p.c. is being sold by the Commonwealth Development Corporation , giving the Chinese a 15 p.c. interest and binding them into partnership with P&O and other shipping lines such as the Danish Maersk .
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