Example sentences of "and [vb past] them [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 2 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 3 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 4 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 5 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 6 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 7 | He took a calculator from his wallet , added up the marks and divided them by 8 . |
| 8 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 9 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 10 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 11 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 12 | The organisation planned its first fibre field trials in 1974 , and began them in 1977 . |
| 13 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 14 | She put all the dolls in one pram and covered them with four sheets and four blankets . |
| 15 | They were about to land at Bristol when he spotted car thieves and buzzed them for 10 miles until they ditched their motor . |
| 16 | Ruth would retire behind her screen to read them and stored them in one of her drawers . |
| 17 | ‘ Incidentally , when Inez went Matthew collected all her belongings together , everything that reminded him of her , and stored them in one of the attics ; nobody else was allowed to touch the stuff . |
| 18 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 19 | Carbery took a pack of cards out of his pocket and dealt them for Twenty-five . |
| 20 | He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces . |
| 21 | Reagan fired a handful of top EPA officials and replaced them with five fresh-faced outsiders . |
| 22 | Accordingly , he dismissed five members of his Cabinet , including his deputy , Danny Philips , and replaced them with four members of the opposition ( George Luialamo , Sam Alasia , Alfred Maetia and Sir Peter Kenilorea , a former Prime Minister ) and Job Tausinga , a PAP backbencher . |
| 23 | He dismissed five of his ministers ( including Deputy Prime Minister Danny Philip ) and replaced them with four members of the opposition and one PAP backbencher [ see p. 37862 ] . |
| 24 | On the porch outside the front door , I kicked off my sandals and pushed them to one side where they joined an already substantial pile of varying styles and sizes . |
| 25 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 26 | The Cleveland Search and Rescue team , lead by local member Gary Finch , quickly located the remaining two and rescued them within 90 minutes . |
| 27 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 28 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |