Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
2 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
3 | Most frogs lay eggs coated in jelly and then abandon them , but some rear their eggs in pouches on their back , in their throat sacs or hold them back in their oviducts . |
4 | Probably the majority of paedophiliacs suppress their inclinations or indulge them only in fantasy . |
5 | members of staff who may be required to brief candidates or show them around ; |
6 | In future , students will be able to take individual Higher National Units or build them up to gain group HNC or HND awards . |
7 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
8 | Then make a Jelly with pipins & put them in . |
9 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |
10 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
11 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ The basic idea is that you jump towards them , scoop up their legs and take them down hard , ’ she explained . |
14 | We and i it 's , when we had sprouts it used to get its hind legs and pull them down and start ploughing at them . |
15 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
16 | Only when he was naked did he take the edge of the covers and draw them gently off her body . |
17 | Sliding off the bed , Tug pushed his feet into his trainers and laced them up . |
18 | Now she 'll transmit in code every hour , on the hour , and you 'll read those signals and write them down then give a receipt . |
19 | I stop these couple of young kids and ask them where my home is , but they just laugh at me . |
20 | The opportunity and the time to just talk to some kids and sound them out … or y' know , listen to what they 've got to say — have the time to do that . |
21 | The tabloid papers , which make their money from guessing the prejudices of their readers and dressing them up as informed opinion , had a field day . |
22 | Tackle all the tasks set during tutorial sessions and know them thoroughly , since it is possible that you might find one or two similar questions in the examination paper . |
23 | And that is what we 're talking about , we 're talking about taking out the two or three hundred really active people , the control and the command structure of the I R A and of the other terrorist organizations and putting them in . |
24 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
25 | Sitting with legs outstretched , take hold of your calves and squeeze them together quite hard , using the muscles in your arms . |
26 | It 's all to do with squashing up waves and spreading them out . ’ |
27 | It 's understood Mr Culley was devoted to animals and kept them everywhere he could find space . |
28 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
29 | Fenella felt ridiculous tears sting her eyes and brushed them away impatiently because this was no time to be emotional . |
30 | She was surprised to feel tears mist her eyes and brushed them quickly away , hoping that he would n't notice . |