Example sentences of "[vb -s] them [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The receiver then decodes the numbers and turns them back into sound . |
| 2 | If it turns them off at school it will probably turn them off at university . |
| 3 | We have also introduced a reform which will give people more choice as to who represents them legally in court . |
| 4 | Thus , a director must account to the company for any commissions he receives on company contracts , because he receives them only by virtue of his position as a director , and he could have been induced to encourage the company to enter into a contract which is not in its best interest . |
| 5 | It builds them up into superbeings so that , when you actually meet them face to face , there is that unavoidable feeling of being let down . |
| 6 | He places them gently on Andy 's face . |
| 7 | which is very natural , and so she ships them off to Germany to the relatives |
| 8 | Yeah , yeah well that 's what Pauline does sometimes when I go up she has them in for friendship , a bit of company in n it ? |
| 9 | Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse . |
| 10 | The beat-card counts them all as Bartholomew Close . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's driving me nuts about it , and he wants them out by Christmas , ’ North confided . |
| 12 | He covers them up with sheets of plastic . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My father just turned round I 've had enough of it if Terry 's not going to do the estimate he passes them on to Brian . |
| 15 | At the end of the play , he takes a box full of sleeping pills and washes them down with wine — both pills and wine have been affectionately supplied by Trish . |
| 16 | The artists Munch , Strindberg and Hill explored themes of despair and isolation , and this , coupled with a element of chance in their work , marks them out as precursors of the Expressionist movement . |
| 17 | The denial of tenderness cuts them off from communication with wives and children . |
| 18 | segregation of the elderly in bungalows … and flats … cuts them off from neighbours other than people of their own age and accentuated their isolation . |
| 19 | To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography . |
| 20 | It 's a good idea , gets them away from home to meet new people . |
| 21 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 22 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 23 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 24 | Rufus takes them on to step two : ‘ So he going to send a search party , is n't he ? |
| 25 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 26 | They have a streamlined routine — lunch at the Market Cafe on the same street as their house , a local barber and tailor — which never takes them far from home and avoids unprogrammed encounters . |
| 27 | I took your violets home with me and have them in a vase in my room , and Mrs Gracie the housekeeper ( who owns the pug ) takes them out at night as she says they poison the air when one is asleep . |
| 28 | NoGGIN members continue to receive the University 's monthly newsletter which keeps them up to date with all public lectures , musical events , etc. , on campus . |
| 29 | A mischievous HOBGOBLIN who preys on disobedient children and keeps them away from harm ; hence water bogies frighten children from pools , garden bogies deter them from trampling flower-beds . |
| 30 | Charlton 's win keeps them right in contention . |