Example sentences of "them [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 2 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 3 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 4 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 5 | Press them through a stainless steel wire sieve . |
| 6 | And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees . |
| 7 | ( iv ) Dehydrate them through a graded alcohol series . |
| 8 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 9 | The county-wide project would mean premises employing bouncers would have to put them through a four-session training scheme and pay a registration fee . |
| 10 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 11 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 12 | and put them through an educational programme as a conditional of a probation order . |
| 13 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 14 | You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it . |
| 15 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 16 | Suppose you are having a conference for your sales people to tell them about a new product . |
| 17 | Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent . |
| 18 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 19 | Every officer must have noticed the figurines , yet no-one had considered them as a possible murder weapon . |
| 20 | Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle ? |
| 21 | Did you intend them as a short-term loan , retrievable when your contract with Sarella was over , or was it more in the line of outright theft ? |
| 22 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 23 | Take them as a sea-level baseline . |
| 24 | Even if you do like meat , poultry and fish and wish to keep them as a regular part of your diet , it would be wise to cut down appreciably on animal protein and up your vegetable quotient . |
| 25 | Outside the field of fiction ( and possibly , biography ) , coverage is not wide enough for librarians to use them as a regular source of selection information . |
| 26 | They can also be damaged by large bristleworms , and some molluscs , particularly nudibranchs , view them as a good meal . |
| 27 | Now we collect all terms involving unc and write them as a perfect square , and so on , so that ultimately we can write the form as unc where in fact unc and unc while y is related to x by the triangular substitution ( see ( 20 ) ) unc and |
| 28 | Beneath the oral history lies a sad text of spies , betrayers , official reprisal and oppression , and heartrending devotion : ‘ Old Mrs Macdonald , after her guest had left the house , took the sheets in which he had lain , folded them carefully , and charged her daughter that they should be kept unwashed , and that , when she died , her body should be wrapped in them as a winding sheet . |
| 29 | You could use them as a decorative device on invitations , or as part of the design on your personal writing paper . |
| 30 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |