Example sentences of "or [verb] them [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Home Corner areas , replacing lids , using cups with saucers or hanging them on hooks provided . |
| 2 | Why are they resisting those arguments , or seeing them as concessions that might be made during negotiations ? |
| 3 | A few careful people had private records of their own , having either remembered the names or recovered them from copies , and took pride in preserving the memory of their aristocratic origin . |
| 4 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 5 | This is how they are currently treated when we use them as research tools or slaughter them for consumption at our tables . |
| 6 | Some exercises they perform sitting on chairs or using them for support , but floor exercises have been out of the question . |
| 7 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 8 | Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere . |
| 9 | Removal of British troops from Northern Ireland or confine them to barracks . |
| 10 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 11 | Or grow them in hyacinth glasses . |
| 12 | Using the notion that is particularly associated with representative government , of a new minister with explicit policy commitments , attention has been given to the pressures that frustrate such commitments , or replace them by commitments derived from other sources . |
| 13 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 14 | Goods are in consumer use when a person is using them , or has them for use , other than exclusively for business purposes . |
| 15 | Wallpaper them or cover them with fabric : felt , hessian , sacking , lining fabric or printed cotton . |
| 16 | Either arrange trailing plants in hanging baskets slung from a brass or wooden pole fixed across the window , or intersperse them with herbs and African violets on glass shelves ( see above ) . |
| 17 | Considering himself throughout a true Catholic , Henry had been reluctant to enter into close association with foreign Protestant states , and when political necessity had induced him to consider allying with the German Lutheran princes in the 1530s , he had adamantly refused to accept their confession of faith or to view them as co-religionists . |
| 18 | To give the screens extra stability , screw them on to the floor or support them with hooks attached to the wall . |
| 19 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 20 | But student attendances after Christmas were appreciably lower , as cars stayed at home and public transport was withdrawn , and several branches decided not to start a spring course at all , or to restrict them in length . |
| 21 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 22 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 23 | Whenever he rang up he was welcome to come for a night , or meet them in London and have dinner . |
| 24 | Canvassers for the main parties report ‘ white-hot indifference ’ mingled with ‘ raging boredom ’ as householders slam their doors on them or attack them with peashooters and water pistols from upper windows with a degree of commitment to the democratic process which experienced observers described as ‘ unprecedented ’ and ‘ profoundly conducive to thought ’ . |
| 25 | A change of position may help to minimise this , such as raising the head or turning them from side to side . |
| 26 | Water freely and tap blossoms daily or mist them with water to disperse pollen and encourage a good fruit set . |
| 27 | It takes courage to execute someone , to put a bullet through their brains , or blow them to pieces with a bomb . |
| 28 | UK local authorities should be encouraged to require that buses used on tendered routes should offer high standards of accessibility through low-floor design or equipping them with lifts or ramps . |
| 29 | As was to be expected in American contracts there was a paragraph prohibiting any act that would shock , insult or offend the community or degrade them in society . |
| 30 | We have grown accustomed in political life to arguing about social and political institutions in a certain way : by attacking or defending them on grounds of justice or fairness . |