Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are twenty-one Anglican churches in Halifax and about half-a-dozen denominations , so Kit Widdows invited them all to take part and about one third took up his invitation and produced a play . |
| 2 | At many industrial sites , for example , workmen routinely carry portable radios , whereas a few years ago , only security guards had them . |
| 3 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 4 | Nitrates can have harmful effects , but are usually kept in check by fortnightly water changes to dilute them . |
| 5 | Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians , who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries , coral , scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries , later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers , by the twelfth dynasty . |
| 6 | But you do n't have to seek out specialist shops to buy them . |
| 7 | These are important times of our lives — too often biology books neglect them and assume we are forever in our youth and prime . |
| 8 | No , I do n't want a lecture on the birds and the bees , I was just wondering where software companies find them , and how they learn their art in the first place ? |