Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |
| 2 | Do not only go and see them , but take them out or bring them home . |
| 3 | Would it slow them down or make them more vicious ? |
| 4 | Having obtained your two pieces of wood , place them one on top of the other , ensuring that they are exactly square , and tape or clamp them securely together . |
| 5 | When you cut the lupins down try not to shake or knock them too much , because this will spread the mildew spores . |
| 6 | And both offices have identified the need to pay volunteers something for their work , or lose them altogether . |
| 7 | England 's second place is slightly surprising , as they seem either to win all their matches ( as in two series against Richards 's men ) or lose them all ( as in 4–0 against Australia last winter ) . |
| 8 | If you break a piece , replace it ; do not try to use the broken pieces or glue them together , the magnetic circuit properties will be affected . |
| 9 | When pressing flowers with fairly hard centres , such as Christmas roses , it is easier to remove the middles completely and either discard or press them separately and replace them later . |
| 10 | In the sixteenth century the right to import commodities , or to process them domestically , normally rested on a grant of a monopoly . |
| 11 | One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound . |
| 12 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 13 | It was thought that only animals of that description could either eject rabbits from their burrows or kill them underground . |
| 14 | Whatever it was that lured or drove them there , these creatures , over the millennia , lumbering after their food , became more and more efficient at moving and breathing out of water . |
| 15 | Those preferring to have them collected , or to take or send them individually , were mostly older people , and people in lower socio-economic groups , and people who — when they were talking about being so short of money that they would have to arrange a loan — thought in terms of a relatively small amount of money . |
| 16 | Make sure you refrigerate or freeze them quickly . |
| 17 | Be careful with leftovers — refrigerate or freeze them quickly . |
| 18 | Decisions of the latter kind , about whether to import components or obtain them locally , for instance , or about investment policy in a recession , or pay restraint , can have major implications for national economic performance . |
| 19 | I was not manipulating them or elevating them artificially , so much as attempting to support talent to reach its natural level . ’ |
| 20 | There is a circularity in these arguments about the consequences of literacy that makes it difficult to test them out or to apply them fruitfully elsewhere . |
| 21 | This offer to transport us out of our own world , with all its problems , unfinished business , boredom and disappointment , into another world where we may escape these things or negotiate them vicariously , is perhaps the fundamental appeal of all narrative . |
| 22 | So , do you want to keep your eyes shut while I get you up to the roof , or open them now and get a nasty surprise when you and all your millions of fans see where you are ? ’ |
| 23 | Companies do sometimes give incorrect details or omit them altogether on their company stationery . |
| 24 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 25 | They do not place themselves inside or outside the Renaissance by anything they actually do : it is we who place them there ( or exclude them therefrom ) by opting for one definition of the term rather than another . |
| 26 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 27 | I , I , that , that is the answer 's in the negative , we 're not setting up those posts or funding them today , but they 've enabled us , they 've prompted us to carry out a revue , I think , I was n't present at budget review it . |
| 28 | Neither of these reasons for creating assemblies at the district and provincial levels implied a desire to make them broadly representative or to give them much clout , but as the draft legislation passed through the upper reaches of the government keen reformers got their hands on it . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps some people need a psychological or emotional crutch before their faith will come back or to give them more confidence . |
| 30 | What 's really annoying for them is when the lifers they 're visiting ca n't seem them or hear them either . |