Example sentences of "them [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | good to use them for swinging in the trees . |
| 2 | The journey with him had been tense , the atmosphere between them like standing on the edge of a volcano , waiting to be flung into the fire when it exploded . |
| 3 | It may therefore be proposed that BRAC 's programme failed to communicate properly with the practitioners and consequently alienated them with regard to the concept of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 4 | He looked very worried and nodded respectfully to the three of them before leaning over the bed , concern evident on his face . |
| 5 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 6 | Opposition Members should study them before going into the Committee . |
| 7 | Check that the fascia boards are worth repairing : if they have started to rot , you will have to replace them before starting on the guttering . |
| 8 | Before the meeting , Mr Russell , one of the four executives , issued a writ against the other original shareholders , claiming an injunction to restrain them from voting on the resolution . |
| 9 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 10 | These are no longer needed and are best killed to prevent them from spreading to the food cupboard , so drop them into the methylated spirits jar . |
| 11 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 12 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 13 | Scuffles ensued when the demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon preventing them from marching to the tomb of the unknown soldier . |
| 14 | The germanium layer confines the charges just under the skin , preventing them from bumping into the surface and scattering from their designated path through the transistor . |
| 15 | Cambridge players were angry but could not express their views because manager John Beck has banned them from talking to the Press . |
| 16 | By the testimonies of such as rugby 's Gareth Chilcott and boxing 's Frank Bruno , to name but two of many who have acknowledged how sport saved them from going off the rails as youngsters , it can claim an increasingly influential niche in society . |
| 17 | It is true that relief from the parish might be obtained in case of distress , but there would always be those whose pride would forbear them from applying for the pittance — at least they would avoid the humiliating and rigorous means test . |
| 18 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 19 | Great Pulteney Street alone is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide , though the thin pilasters and applied pediments of Bathwick 's terraces prevent them from ranking alongside the Royal Crescent and the King 's Circus as works of European significance . |
| 20 | As I mentioned earlier , they glide round in an arc and it is a hell of a job to prevent them from plunging into the weeds some way along your own bank . |
| 21 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 22 | Has he considered whether the western powers should purchase some of those warheads to prevent them from falling into the hands of non-nuclear powers that have no idea how to maintain or destroy them ? |
| 23 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |
| 24 | This means that any secret profits made by them in dealing with the firm should be disclosed and accounted for . |
| 25 | The questions involved did not relate to the guilt or innocence of the defendants but whether they had been wrongfully deprived of material which should have been available to them in preparing for the trial and for use at the trial if relevant . |
| 26 | You can congratulate them on getting into the problem so quickly , discuss the flaw , come to a mutual agreement about definitions or regulations , or dictate further instructions as needed . |
| 27 | He was ashamed of the way his father sat in his armchair staring at them without joining in the conversation , or even rudely reading as they talked . |
| 28 | When two angels , again in disguise , met Lot in Sodom , he also welcomed them by bowing to the ground once ( 19.1 ) . |
| 29 | We may try to explain them by pointing to the place they occupy in the larger narrative . |
| 30 | We wo n't find them by staying in the light and warm , I know that much . ’ |