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

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1 When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function .
2 The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later .
3 My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft .
4 There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night .
5 Henry Tudor found that there was still considerable opposition to him becoming King , particularly from ‘ Yorkshire ’ pretenders , who included Margaret of Burgundy , for whom an Oxford tradesman called Simnel , crossed into England from Ireland , in the summer of 1487 , with a force of two thousand German mercenaries , but Henry — who had become King Henry VII , in September 1485 — raised a larger army and defeated them at Newark .
6 ‘ I 'd like to have hundreds and hundreds of dogs one day and show them at Crufts . ’
7 The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months .
8 There were quite a few noted cheesemakers in Cotherstone at the time , including the Misses Hutchinson and the Hodgson family , and Aunt Hannah also used to make cheeses with the help of my Aunt Mary , who lived in Lartington , and showed them at Eggleston Show .
9 From a practical standpoint we are suffering from some jail overcrowding problems here and certainly this was one option to take an offender who does n't really belong behind iron bars and punish them at home , and from a personal standpoint I was sort of intrigued with the novelty of it all and the technology aspects of it .
10 that 's lovely , one off each strip , one for you and one for me , have to go and claim them at tea time .
11 Visitors unencumbered by cars get an even better introduction by embarking at Glenfinnan on the small passenger boat that plies the seventeen miles of Loch Shiel and delivers them at Acharacle without effort on their part : an idyllic cruise .
12 Why did n't Charles come down and join them at Mother Bunch 's ?
13 By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while .
14 Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables .
15 The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place .
16 Here the individual pixels are about the size of characters and you can Set and Reset them at will .
17 ( i ) Incubate embryos or cell aggregates for IS min in Ca2+- and Mg2+-free Hank 's medium ( Gibco ) at 37-C , dry them in air on clean microscope slides , fix in ethanol:acetic acid ( 3:1 v/v ) for 5 min , followed by ethanol:acetic acid:formaldehyde ( 40% ) fixation ( 85:5:10 by vol ) for 1 h , dry in air again and store them at -20-C ; ( ii ) Prepare Schiff 's basic stain for the Feulgen reaction as follows .
18 When you go to light them , use a wick and light them at arms length .
19 As applies in the treatment of fungal attack , in the eradication of insect pests it is necessary to identify the unhealthy conditions which have invited the attack , and to cure them at source .
20 In the early stages we were we you know used to take phone calls and take them at face value , and we got a phone call like this .
21 He attacked her and threw her to the ground before turned his attention to the pub , picking up pool balls and throwing them at bottles of spirits behind the bar .
22 It would be necessary to bring the tracks of both authorities into line and join them at Tooting Junction , but there remained the hiatus over the different methods of current collection and the L.C.C .
23 I have got to try and help them at times like this when they need me . ’
24 I have got to try and help them at times like this when they need me . ’
25 Researchers can trap them in frozen gases and study them at leisure
26 Crown counsel said the Belfast men bound and gagged Sarah Kennedy , her two young sons and a school-friend and held them at gunpoint in the house at My Lady 's Mile , Holywood , on November 27 , 1991 .
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