Example sentences of "them [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More to follow ’ : I phoned them right a way ( and they agreed to come ) You must write it a gain ( and this time , get it right ) |
| 2 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 3 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 4 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 5 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 6 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 7 | No , take them down a bit |
| 8 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 9 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 10 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 11 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 12 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 13 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 14 | Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again . |
| 15 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 16 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 17 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 18 | Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them . |
| 19 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 20 | But most of us experience periods of low self-esteem at different times and some — particularly If they have been unhappy in their early life — seem to be permanently stuck with such a poor impression of themselves and their own worth that ‘ self-esteem ’ is to them just a word which applies to other people more fortunate than themselves . |
| 21 | When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite . |
| 22 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 23 | Rub sugar lumps on to the peel of the lemons , holding them over a bowl , until each lump starts crumbling , then start on another . |
| 24 | We took about £150m out of them over a couple of years . ’ |
| 25 | After we 've seen the patients , I 'll tell you more about them over a drink . ’ |
| 26 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |
| 27 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 28 | Littering the slopes of the volcano are thousands of large bombs ejected by the eruption , some of them over a metre in diameter . |
| 29 | A man was monitoring one of them over a pair of headphones . |
| 30 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |