Example sentences of "[vb -s] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 2 | ‘ And they play the pipes , just as the Arab plays them with a bag holding air , ’ I added . |
| 3 | ‘ He plays them like game fish . |
| 4 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 5 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 6 | He offers them to his friends . |
| 7 | The draft orders are again the subject of consultation , following which parliamentary approval turns them into legal binding requirements . |
| 8 | There is no evidence , to date , that making people belt-up turns them into worse drivers . |
| 9 | Turns them into shapes , and gives to airy nothing |
| 10 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 11 | The frescoes , for example , show many elements that are borrowed from Minoan Crete , but handled in a way that turns them into distinctively Theran compositions . |
| 12 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |
| 13 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 14 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 15 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 16 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 17 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 18 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |
| 19 | Between 60 and 70 per cent of Salisbury 's clergy wives now work , and the church hierarchy encourages them to . |
| 20 | Certainly the education system encourages them to , by valuing only the Standard in most territories . |
| 21 | It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out . |
| 22 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
| 23 | What separates them from the dwindling ranks of mediocre C86-type bands are their songs : sparkling things that are packed full of love-drenched sentiments , mood-lifting hooklines and wonderful tunes . |
| 24 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 25 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 26 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 27 | They should help small farmers , but not in a way that discourages them from getting larger or farming better : there must be no farming poverty trap . |
| 28 | Many are unfamiliar with , and suspicious of , statutory bodies , and limited command of English discourages them from using social service . |
| 29 | The other tribe , however , finds twins fearful , appalling , degrading , an aberration , because you see only animals have litters of young and therefore twins are considered to be inferior , a threat , so much so , in fact , that this latter tribe ritually murders them at birth . |
| 30 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |