Example sentences of "them [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the travel agency things , I 'll put them on there to sort out to throw away . |
| 2 | I warn them all not to take her seriously , but they all do , poor chaps ! |
| 3 | I mean if you 're saying that by not communicating everybody 's performance gets better , let's tell them all not to talk to each-other |
| 4 | I told them all not to worry , I would go on working with you as soon as you were conscious and we would see our way together to a solution of the whole case . ’ |
| 5 | I would tell them all where to go . |
| 6 | She took the report , told them all where to find her if necessary and shut herself in her office . |
| 7 | And it probably beds them in slightly to go off to somewhere else . |
| 8 | ‘ And will she be bringing them down here to stay do you think ? ’ |
| 9 | and you have to press them down anyway to make them all stick . |
| 10 | I ca n't put them down there to begin with , I think they all draw up |
| 11 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 12 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 13 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 14 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 15 | Certain individuals stand out as more perceptive , sensitive , far-seeing than the rest of us , and we recognize their value judgements as maturer than our own ; but they differ from experts in that we can learn from them only how to evaluate more maturely ourselves . |
| 16 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 17 | We , as members , should not sit on their desks and tell them exactly where to go . |
| 18 | Tie in the new shoots on climbing roses , bending them over horizontally to encourage flowering side shoots . |
| 19 | Use them not only to record information , but also to explore your understanding of historical topics and issues . |
| 20 | The white boys impute an imaginary position of advantage to blacks , which allows them not only to deny the actual conditions of black oppression , but to claim them as their own , in order to justify exclusionary practices which keep blacks ‘ one down ’ and themselves ‘ one up ’ . |
| 21 | The sonic pulse systems emitted by toothed whales are directional and most species seem to use them not only to detect food but also to make fine distinctions on the basis of the echoes . |
| 22 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 23 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 24 | Governing bodies must develop strategies for cooperation across LEAs which enable them not only to share some resources , but also to apply greater pressure on decisions about the size of the education budget . |
| 25 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 26 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 27 | It is vital that our children have the best possible education to allow them not only to have the best possible standard of life and maximise their opportunities , but for the benefit of Britain , so that we can compete in the world in trade and industry . |
| 28 | I scanned them once just to make sure Zaria was n't among them and was pretty sure she was n't . |
| 29 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 30 | And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed . |