Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 3 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 4 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 5 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 6 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 7 | She would put all the light clothes into one bag and all the dark into another and take them to the launderette in Pevsner Road . |
| 8 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 9 | ‘ So , ’ Nathan pulled the towel from his shoulder and tossed it aside , ‘ after you 've tidied the galley , wipe the oilskins dry and hang them in the locker . |
| 10 | Bureaux are polled annually for suggestions for rewriting parts of the system and the IPG weights these and builds them into the plans . |
| 11 | The council wants to renew these and extend them to the whole of those districts and also bring in Pimlico and Westbourne . |
| 12 | Regular use of a good cream helps keep hands soft and smooth and protects them from the onslaught of cold weather . |
| 13 | for the first crossover you take three stitches from the left and cross them with the three centre stitches . |
| 14 | Trace the promise Badges on page 31 and glue them onto the bookmark . |
| 15 | Although official records of dioxins date from the middle of last century , it was an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in Seveso in 1976 that catapulted them into the public arena . |
| 16 | Yet , there also appear dangers in resting content with proposing apparent similarities between past and present and leaving them on the table , as it were . |
| 17 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 18 | Chasing prey through the tree-tops is much more hazardous than pursuing them along the ground , as this raccoon-hunting puma is discovering ( below ) . |
| 19 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |
| 20 | mm , I shall er get the other lot in and do that , do that first thing in the morning , get every thing cleared up , and then if you give me your pull overs , I can hand wash those and put them in the spin drier so you 'd better sort them out do you think you 'd of put some tassels in that pelmet ? , you know where the I 've got some spare one 's no , do n't you remember I went into and he gave me a piece of the trimming and I can take the tassels off |
| 21 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 22 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 23 | In the first of a new series , which considers the properties of various media , MARTIN CHILD examines the brands available and puts them to the test . |
| 24 | ‘ I just got drunk and threw them over the wall . ’ |
| 25 | This water originates at the Antarctic Divergence , a narrow zone close to the continent where diverging westerly and easterly winds pull subsurface waters upward and spread them across the ocean surface . |
| 26 | Early this year my wife parked her car in the college car park , collected up books , yarns and accessories first and took them into the classroom . |
| 27 | He also purchased seven drawings attributed to Michelangelo from the Woodburn sale at Christie 's in 1887 and gave them to the British Museum ( five are still accepted as autograph ) . |
| 28 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 29 | Clean the gunge that is probably beneath these brushes , rub everything clean and return them in the right order . |
| 30 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |