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 | And it probably beds them in slightly to go off to somewhere else . |
| 3 | ‘ And will she be bringing them down here to stay do you think ? ’ |
| 4 | and you have to press them down anyway to make them all stick . |
| 5 | I ca n't put them down there to begin with , I think they all draw up |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tie in the new shoots on climbing roses , bending them over horizontally to encourage flowering side shoots . |
| 12 | Use them not only to record information , but also to explore your understanding of historical topics and issues . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I scanned them once just to make sure Zaria was n't among them and was pretty sure she was n't . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But because both CSPs and more general phonological variables are variety-specific , it is difficult to distinguish them clearly enough to apply the taxonomy more generally . |
| 25 | ‘ And , ’ Luke continued as if she had n't spoken , ‘ it would be only common courtesy to return their hospitality to us and take them out somewhere to dine . ’ |
| 26 | They 're real nice pictures — I keep them in my pocket and take them out sometimes to look at them . |
| 27 | It was as difficult for them to develop a public analysis of rape eight years ago as it is for them today publicly to acknowledge the extent of sexual abuse of girls and young women inside and outside the home . |
| 28 | As Scott said later , the judges ‘ were not Gothicly disposed and though they awarded premiums to all the best Gothic designs they took care not to put any of them high enough to have much chance ’ . |
| 29 | She interpreted them quite accurately to mean that her children were under-achieving and the message she took from them was almost always a negative one . |
| 30 | It 's sometimes possible to approach them closely enough to stick a device like an anemometer , or wind speed gauge , into the gas jet , and by doing this , supersonic speeds have been recorded . |