Example sentences of "them [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you let them try them on at all ? |
| 2 | course now they 're putting them on at half past four you , your body clock 's well out . |
| 3 | Erm , there 's no reason why you ca n't put them in at that price I mean they 're |
| 4 | Fetch them in at half past three . |
| 5 | It does n't take them long at all to get in the outskirts of London , it 's weaving your way |
| 6 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 7 | If you took all the cells of a swallow and put them together at random , the chance that the resulting object would fly is not , for everyday purposes , different from zero . |
| 8 | for er we should see them away at Old Trafford , I ca n't see any problem there can you ? |
| 9 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 10 | If you 'll stand in the I D parade for them tonight at seven o'clock they 'll give you ten pounds . |
| 11 | The amazing ‘ Street of Much Music ’ , with it 's abundance of colourful bars and restaurants is only 10–15 metres away , as is the beach where you can take advantage of your free beach mat and cultivate those tans ready to show them off at some of Kos town 's brilliant night-clubs , also 15 minutes away . |
| 12 | They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time . |
| 13 | David Swan joined them promptly at six-thirty . |
| 14 | Many miners apprenticed their young sons to the trade taking them underground at 15 , 16 or 17 years of age and paying them their worth , or less . |
| 15 | Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times . |
| 16 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 17 | On the day before — Friday — Nutty ordered them all to go to bed early , and meet at the refrigerator factory where Mr Singh would pick them up at 8.15 after they had got the horses ready . |
| 18 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 19 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 20 | To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small . |
| 21 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 22 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 23 | And they did n't really want them back at that time . |
| 24 | Therefore the problem for us is not necessarily to get clients to install a new identity , but rather to find out which ‘ corporate communications ’ are unintelligible , and then to ask — in today 's cost-conscious times — whether it is worth putting them out at all . |
| 25 | No I 'm not on about that I 'm on about lea chucking them out at one o'clock . |
| 26 | Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution . |
| 27 | I 'll have a cigarette for later if you do n't , if your handing them out at this point |
| 28 | I mean one assumes that 's why the Highway Authority put them there at that size . |
| 29 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 30 | This means that if you start with a random collection of objects above the hole , and some force shakes and jostles them about at random , after a while the objects above and below the hole will come to be nonrandomly sorted . |