Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you cut the lupins down try not to shake or knock them too much , because this will spread the mildew spores . |
| 2 | I 'm making her kick , trying to get her to shake or swat them off , and the last thing I need at this point is for her to panic , in which case I can certainly kiss the whole blessed contract bye-bye . |
| 3 | Make sure you refrigerate or freeze them quickly . |
| 4 | Be careful with leftovers — refrigerate or freeze them quickly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whenever I talk about these things anywhere in the country , I find that people who have been burgled or mugged , or have had items stolen from their vehicles would much prefer the young man or woman who committed the crime to do something to compensate or repay them instead of spending a brief time in prison , with all the disadvantages that that involves . |
| 7 | I think it would be easier to try and draw them together so that we have got this document with the position so far , as we have a lot . |
| 8 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 9 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 10 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 11 | Well as Michael says , we 're not proud of the results er , and we 're not going to try and dress them up , Michael has n't tried to do that and I certainly do n't intend to . |
| 12 | A fatal flaw in using percentages is to try and add them up when this is not really possible . |
| 13 | She would send over beef tea and other delicacies to try and cheer them up . |
| 14 | They di they did n't want to feed those on strike , they wanted to try and get them back to work did they ? |
| 15 | And they do n't really want to go on using you as a a sort of prop , because I mean you ca n't afford that because you 've got lots of other clients and you , you know really the aim is to try and get them back to self-sufficiency . |
| 16 | Because they er to try and get them out . |
| 17 | My favourite drum sounds have always been The Glitter Band 's so I thought it was silly not to try and track them down . |
| 18 | ‘ Here the directors do everything to try and keep them away . ’ |
| 19 | As will become clear , I do not see these questions as independent of each other , but I think it is helpful to try and consider them separately as well as in interaction . |
| 20 | Her cuts were treated , her bruises examined , and then she and the two children sat in the lounge of one of the private wards , sipping tea and waiting for Bodie to come and pick them up . |
| 21 | Event organisers , The Ivory Tower , in association with ‘ Duke of Gloucester ’ Steam Locomotive Trust and Crewe Heritage Centre , expect a large number of visitors and supporters to come and cheer them on . |
| 22 | They had made a friend — a very good friend — and they dearly wanted him to come and see them again . |
| 23 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 24 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 25 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
| 26 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 27 | Carefully she knelt and gathered them up . |
| 28 | In practice , those with established political views will have no difficulty in recognising comments with which they disagree and putting them promptly in the Favourable to Them column . |
| 29 | Enforcement of prohibition was an impossible task as " speak easies " ( illegal drinking places ) mushroomed and an absurdly small force of ill-paid Federal agents tried to discover and close them down . |
| 30 | Although plants were being collected throughout this country and many were beginning to arrive from overseas , as yet the Apothecaries had no place where they might cultivate and study them scientifically . |