Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] them [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must shout at them , slap their faces , magically coerce them , or manage to force them out of the corridor . |
| 2 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 3 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
| 4 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 5 | Climbing one branch higher , Virginia reached out and stroked the cat 's head ; then , gently , she placed her hand round its hind legs and began to ease them out of the fork . |
| 6 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 7 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 8 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 9 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 11 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 12 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 13 | They had previously won compensation of 1 million yen each for eight former employees dismissed in the ‘ red purge ’ and had set them up in business near the company 's housing project . |
| 14 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 15 | However , when the defendant was in possession of the goods and refused to deliver them up on demand his act was not only conversion but also detinue and the form of judgment in detinue might include an order for the delivery up of the goods . |
| 16 | Then they follow him obediently , relyin' on his knowledge and experience to get them back to safety . ’ |
| 17 | In this case , the Bank buys bills but agrees to sell them back to the market at an agreed price some time in the future . |
| 18 | There was nothing for it but to attempt to dig them out by hand . |