Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] them [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought of all that money calmed them down , and they subsided . |
| 2 | We suggest children bring plimmies , towels , waterproof suncream , sunhat , clothes to get wet in and dry change to cover them up . |
| 3 | He rushed away followed by his laughing , equipment-rattling band in a mad stampede , but someone else was running towards the Windmill from another direction in a vain attempt to cut them off . |
| 4 | I have taken this opportunity to point them out to the Minister and I hope that something good will come of it . |
| 5 | Local authorities should be given some money to get them out of the mess . |
| 6 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 7 | You know , they might just get up a little way and then some bureaucracy knocks them down again and they 're back where they started . |
| 8 | The other 30 passengers were taken in passing coaches to Stokesley fire station where they were looked after until another vehicle picked them up . |
| 9 | This is a result of pressure from British , French , Spanish and Belgian beer manufacturers which claim Germany is using this law to keep them out of its ( huge ) market . |
| 10 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 11 | For some strange reason bells have gone out of fashion with the young , but it only needs some careful marketing to bring them back in again ( something computer-controlled , with buttons ? ) . |
| 12 | He used to keep their pay packets in his safe and only dole out enough money on a daily basis to see them through , to save them from getting robbed . |
| 13 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 14 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 15 | Fellowship Afloat have the use of Dawn , a fully-rigged barge , until the end of April but need another vessel to see them through until September . |
| 16 | While they may not realise it , owners can be held liable if their dog attacks someone , or causes an accident or damage , and this policy covers them up to £1 million . |
| 17 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 18 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 19 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 20 | Even buildings whose shorter periodicity put them out of the vulnerable category suffered ; the lengthy shaking made them progressively less brittle , in effect lengthening their period until they vibrated in resonance with the quake , at which point many began to collapse . |
| 21 | Even if horses are found which are believed to be stolen it is difficult without a central file to link them up with owners who have reported them missing . |
| 22 | I spent an entire day putting them back , watching that face , hundreds of years old , come to life . ’ |
| 23 | Both she and Graham agreed there was little else they could do that night and when he telephoned through to report to UNACO headquarters he was told a company Cessna would be waiting at six o'clock the following morning to fly them on to Geneva , the nearest airport to Lausanne . |
| 24 | The traditional school 's isolation of the teacher typically allows such useful knowledge to lie unused , or at least under-used , the people concerned being unaware of the circumstances in which their skills could be deployed , their colleagues unmindful of the possibilities or unable because of lack of timetable time or other simple machinery to bring them in . |
| 25 | There are different functions , and the New Testament shows the way that the early church divided them up . |
| 26 | Marks & Spencer and Waitrose both have champagnes which you could usefully treat in the same way if you have to cool dark hole to bung them in . |
| 27 | Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle . |
| 28 | The format has to be reviewed in order to restore the balance between the desire to give the playing countries enough games in the early stage to sharpen them up for the knock-out competition , and the need for a structure that is both fair and seen to be fair . |
| 29 | It was full of suspicions , without one real fact to back them up . |
| 30 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |