Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] them " in BNC.

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1 There is also much unnecessary hardship and fear and pain caused by man to animals in the way we breed them , market them , or eventually kill them in an abattoir .
2 if you want to comment on any of those while we 're going through , or perhaps cross them off your list .
3 After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance .
4 I think it 'd be a LOT of work to run one … unless you could get those involved to keep track of thier own scores & just send them to you for ‘ validation ’ & keeping the table upto date .
5 Should I go ahead and stab them or just scare them ?
6 Do you use them as a raft , or just throw them to the sharks and sort of watch them sink ?
7 Or just eat them on their own ?
8 or still do them in the evening ?
9 Only those documents which clearly state that the contract is to be entered into upon the terms and conditions of the sender , and either have those terms and conditions printed on them , or clearly incorporate them by reference , will rank as counter-offers .
10 Firms which reduce emissions by amounts exceeding the reductions required by the authorities under the bubble or offset policies can ‘ bank ’ emission reduction credits and either use them to expand their own plant later or openly trade them with other companies .
11 It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene .
12 Shallow or superficial learning — like learning a name , address and telephone number that you promptly forget unless you write them down or consciously commit them to memory or use them habitually .
13 Farmers can make good use of some land while other areas nearby are less attractive , or even repel them .
14 or even visit them , bearing in mind
15 If this was a late addition , one that went into the quarto at the last minute , the printer may have lost four lines of type in the process — or even cut them in order to be able to finish Act 3 tidily on the last page of a quarto sheet : the very next page , as it happens , which left scarcely any room for manoeuvre .
16 If he had ( as we all have ) some purely private thoughts and feelings and relationships and experiences , you expected him to keep those to himself , and not embarrass your dinner-party with them , or even bring them into his poems .
17 You can listen to the radio while you 're working or even take them on holiday , though DO N'T try to punch cards in a coach , train or plane .
18 Why should I require animals to join me in some mutual admiration society or even make them honorary members ?
19 For example , the allocation of land in a development plan for a school will probably reduce the value of houses on this land or even make them completely unsaleable .
20 ‘ She could n't understand or even hear them all that well .
21 We need n't spell the five out here , or even understand them .
22 ‘ I wonder will brides have to carry these along with their bouquets , or even wear them ?
23 This will make the operations of poachers that much more difficult , or even force them to pack it in altogether .
24 These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) .
25 Bosses were warned yesterday that secretaries have the power to banish them to the back of aircraft or even give them a poor hire car .
26 I suppose you do know that not everyone can see ghosts or hear them or even feel them .
27 There are cowboys , admittedly , idiots who leave smashed bottles in grass , throw lit cigarettes away carelessly , leave gates open or even vandalise them .
28 We can not neglect these things , but neither can we control or even forecast them with any certainty .
29 Or even leave them on long enough for you to watch TV ?
30 They can sell their timeshares , or rent them out , or even leave them to their heirs in their wills .
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