Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [v-ing] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there have been well publicised incidents of alleged poor husbandry of laboratory animals , most well-run organisations have too large an investment in their stock to afford mishandling them , especially primates , whose importation is now severely restricted . |
| 2 | It was a stormy meeting during which Callaghan was one of those who clashed angrily with Morrison , arguing that the abandonment of the free vote meant pressurising them to change their convictions , or at least to keep them in cold storage . |
| 3 | They would be more than willing to move as long as Leeds council offered them a suitable alternative with security of tenure ( this in effect means building them a brand new stadium from scratch ) . |
| 4 | The archaeologist stood watching them with that fixed grin , staring into their souls . |
| 5 | The work involves feeding them , three babies at a time , it is not easy . |
| 6 | The girl hijacker stood watching them with her gun . |
| 7 | Another appalling accident — on Parchamo when partner Mal Duff 's crampon failed precipitating them both down the mountain — dented his psychological readjustment following the Andes accident described in Touching the Void , but has n't destroyed it . |
| 8 | It is a gloves-off job to avoid getting them soaking wet and the combination of cold steel , snow and wind , and wet dog food is bad for the fingers . |
| 9 | But , it 's probably a good long-term bet because of its more professional drawing tools , and extra features like converting text to outlines , 50 levels of undo , 200 named layers and locking objects in place to avoid moving them by mistake . |
| 10 | On a tree-stump beside one cave-mouth , a raccoon sits swatting them down with its paw , munching the little bodies and discarding the skinny wings onto a growing pile on the ground beside it . |
| 11 | Presidential support scores are so inadequate and so subject to misinterpretation by students and others ( including presidents ! ) that it is time for Congressional Quarterly to consider abandoning them . |
| 12 | The Countless Stones at Aylesford in Kent are the remains of a chambered tomb : a baker is said to have tried to solve the problem by placing a loaf on each stone , but the Devil kept knocking them off . |
| 13 | They created machinery to avoid extending them to those whose ascertainable record showed them to be untrustworthy and likely to default . |
| 14 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |
| 15 | And with the brightest students , who would have gone to Britain until the Thatcher government started charging them substantial fees , now studying in the US , it seems likely that the trend away from cricket to American sports will steadily continue . |
| 16 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 17 | ‘ It would hardly be the thing to risk confusing them . |
| 18 | In the view of the government , discussing such matters in print made resolving them harder . |
| 19 | According to David Trippier , the British Enviroment Minister , if developing countries increased their per capita use of ozone depleting chemicals to just one tenth of the 1986 consumption rate in industrialised economies , and used them indefinitely : ‘ Then we would never return to the levels needed for us to get rid of ozone holes , even if the rest of the world stopped using them althogether . ’ |
| 20 | This is , however , no reason to avoid making them as reliable as possible . |
| 21 | Drug users say they could be at increased risk from AIDS after a decision to stop giving them free clean syringes . |
| 22 | To disturb the layers from this position involves moving them further apart , which is resisted by tension in the bonds . |
| 23 | She 's so strong her immune system keeps throwing them out . |
| 24 | The Swiss , by and large , have grown out of it , though it is 1981 since Thomas Burgler last won the Lauberhorn downhill and the slalom keeps evading them . |
| 25 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 26 | It should also be noted that there is no covenant or warranty implied that the premises are legally fit for the use for which the tenant intends using them and it is for the tenant to satisfy itself in this regard . |
| 27 | Now is the time to begin fitting them together into the jigsaw , to demonstrate a powerful result extending the invisible hand beyond perfect competition to circumstances under which a natural monopoly has an efficient output and pricing structure . |