Example sentences of "them [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | It is pesticide-free and traps male moths by luring them on to a sticky pad with the aid of a sex attractant ( a pheromene lure capsule ) given off by female moths to attract a mate . |
| 3 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 4 | The reason for this may well be that the hospital consultant is reluctant to let go medical responsibility for former patients and thrust them on to a local GP , but he is not normally easily available when off duty or working in a clinic many miles away . |
| 5 | Connie buzzed them in for a joyous greeting from Hurley , Colonel John Sasser , the Defense attaché , and one of Buck Revell 's FBI team , but there was n't much time for celebration because Hamadan was wanted elsewhere for debriefing . |
| 6 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 7 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 8 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 9 | Even when reviews do exist , tracking them down for a particular title can be difficult . |
| 10 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 11 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 12 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 13 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 14 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 15 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 16 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 17 | But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it . |
| 18 | ABERDEEN flirted with disaster at Kilbowie last night before two goals in the final 15 minutes from Scott Booth took them through to a Scottish Cup semi-final against Hibs at Tynecastle on 3 April . |
| 19 | ‘ My brother 's office , ’ Miss Evans said in a hushed voice and hurried them through into a narrow , dark hall with closed doors and a stair rising up . |
| 20 | The Everglades kite in Florida picks up snails and carries them off to a feeding perch . |
| 21 | Mothers no doubt think they are doing the very best for their children , getting them off to a good night 's sleep . |
| 22 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 23 | These can be removed simply by wiping them off with a damp cloth . |
| 24 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
| 25 | If the right hon. and learned Gentleman supports the TECs so much , why has he started them off with a significant cut in funding ? |
| 26 | If you 're a bit large on the hips , top them off with a loose T-shirt . |
| 27 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 28 | Bruce 's far lighter cavalry cut them off in a flanking movement . |
| 29 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 30 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |