Example sentences of "them [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire .
2 POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire .
3 We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope .
4 He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life .
5 Press them through a stainless steel wire sieve .
6 She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids .
7 ( v ) Separate the embryos from other cellular debris by mouth pipette , wash them through a warm pre-equilibrated drop of M16 + BSA ( Table 5 ) and culture them in the same medium under paraffin oil at 37 C in 5% CO2 in air .
8 And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees .
9 ( iv ) Dehydrate them through a graded alcohol series .
10 If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber .
11 It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed .
12 The county-wide project would mean premises employing bouncers would have to put them through a four-session training scheme and pay a registration fee .
13 You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) .
14 I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet .
15 I fancy that 's what bothers them about a possible American end : whether Harry 's going to do any investigation of his own ideas over here . ’
16 Suppose you are having a conference for your sales people to tell them about a new product .
17 Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent .
18 Every officer must have noticed the figurines , yet no-one had considered them as a possible murder weapon .
19 Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle ?
20 Did you intend them as a short-term loan , retrievable when your contract with Sarella was over , or was it more in the line of outright theft ?
21 The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes .
22 Take them as a sea-level baseline .
23 Outside the field of fiction ( and possibly , biography ) , coverage is not wide enough for librarians to use them as a regular source of selection information .
24 Even if you do like meat , poultry and fish and wish to keep them as a regular part of your diet , it would be wise to cut down appreciably on animal protein and up your vegetable quotient .
25 They can also be damaged by large bristleworms , and some molluscs , particularly nudibranchs , view them as a good meal .
26 Now we collect all terms involving unc and write them as a perfect square , and so on , so that ultimately we can write the form as unc where in fact unc and unc while y is related to x by the triangular substitution ( see ( 20 ) ) unc and
27 Also , in Germany firms such as Siemens originally joined employers ' associations yet never fully relied on them as a collective means of defending managerial prerogatives and curtailing union activities in the workplace .
28 Scotland does not have national parks at the moment , and many see them as a nasty English invention .
29 Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance .
30 Beneath the oral history lies a sad text of spies , betrayers , official reprisal and oppression , and heartrending devotion : ‘ Old Mrs Macdonald , after her guest had left the house , took the sheets in which he had lain , folded them carefully , and charged her daughter that they should be kept unwashed , and that , when she died , her body should be wrapped in them as a winding sheet .
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