Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb -s] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The player who trespasses against the rules or ignores them is a ‘ spoil-sport ’ . |
| 2 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 3 | Failure to achieve this goal at the outset may result in a patient who depends on others for insulin injections , misses injections or does them with a very poor technique . |
| 4 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 5 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 6 | The join catches hairs and breaks them . |
| 7 | A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code . |
| 8 | This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire . |
| 9 | In other words , Iran recruits and pays them to undermine regimes in countries such as Egypt and Algeria . |
| 10 | He closes his eyes and opens them . |
| 11 | Combined Power Systems , in conjunction with Norweb , installs the units and maintains them . |
| 12 | To ‘ freeze-dry ’ his wigs , David simply applies gel to the wigs and places them in the freezer for 30 minutes ! |
| 13 | Clare takes conventional subjects and gives them a twist , physically and artistically . |
| 14 | It is the increase in oxygen and the increased BMR that burns off excess calories and keeps them off forever . |
| 15 | The computer accepts wrongly-spelled words , nonsense words and rude words and displays them on screen in the story to the amusement of the class . |
| 16 | He who hears his words and obeys them ‘ is like a man building a house , who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock ’ ( Luke 6:48 ) . |
| 17 | The person who hears his words and obeys them ‘ is like a man building a house , who dug deep , and laid the foundation upon rock ; and when a flood arose , the stream broke against that house , and could not shake it , because it had been well built ’ ( Luke 6:48 RSV ) . |
| 18 | We have a God who longs to answer prayer ; a God who listens to our words and answers them ; a God who knows our thoughts and answers the prayers that we can not express in words ; a God whose ability to answer prayer is not limited by the finite , but who can do infinitely more abundantly above all that we can ask for or think of asking . |
| 19 | Small fish soon rise to collect them and as they do , the heron neatly spears and swallows them . |
| 20 | He fishes for oysters and leaves them for her lunch . |
| 21 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 22 | To write a computer program , the student selects appropriate labels and puts them in a tray . |
| 23 | and old industrial buildings that they 've just taken over and when there 's a crisis in the housing , the state takes over the schools and uses them as refugee centres |
| 24 | The plant alkaloid ryanodine opens the channels at low ( nanomolar ) concentrations but closes them at higher doses ( micromolar ) . |
| 25 | And the fact that the film is not frightened of its sexual aspects but treats them with some taste is another point in its favour . |
| 26 | The American Constitution provides a federal system : it recognizes states as distinct political communities and assigns them sovereignty over many issues of principle . |
| 27 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 28 | If the accused person recounts his childhood experiences and relates them to his commission of the crime , is the entire discussion ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? |
| 29 | ( Compare Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper , and many other poems where Wordsworth assimilates other people 's experiences and tells them as if they were his own . ) |
| 30 | Somewhat later came the present owner , John Matta , who now takes great pleasure in greeting Citalia guests and welcomes them on arrival with a gift of the wonderful Chianti Classico from his excellent cellars and offers them a typical Tuscan dinner at a reasonable price , which is taken most weeks in the castle 's impressive banqueting hall . |