Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 2 | No sound , nothing but the gentle flurry of leaves as the wind lifted and scattered them like pieces of gold across the grass . |
| 3 | All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste . |
| 4 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 5 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
| 6 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 7 | This is updated as the system works through the files to be offlined and copies them onto the media item . |
| 8 | Associations were formed and meetings held to get people organised and to keep them informed . |
| 9 | It 's when the family come in and they 've been prepared by a doctor whose speciality it is , and they have lists of things that they have witnessed you do , that have embarrassed and humiliated them . |
| 10 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 11 | We had seen and sensed them on our way up , their tentative postures , their unanimity of hesitation . |
| 12 | I 'm not opposed to links when they 're relevant , I 've in fact argued and encouraged them and defended them where they 've taken place and I believe that they were important but I do n't believe in them taking place where they 're irrelevant and er where they er are unhelpful . |
| 13 | With the lines stretched out , have a friend apply tension on the ends to be prepared and scissor them to equal length . |
| 14 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 15 | Would they accept what he had said and let them go rather than cause a scene ? |
| 16 | Our aim was to co-ordinate the various efforts being made and bring them under one umbrella . |
| 17 | It took any jokes he might 've made and threw them away . |
| 18 | Using the Public Windows Interface self-certification kits promised next month , independent software vendors which find their application(s) do n't run are being asked look at the source , find the undocumented Windows calls being made and give them to Sun which will add them to the PWI specification . |
| 19 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 20 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
| 21 | When an old woman on the mountain curtseys to Marco , when a priest takes the boys to the cave where loyalists have gathered and shows them a portrait of the historic Ivor , the story rises to a climax , but not to the final climax . |
| 22 | If you have to sign a delivery note as proof of receipt , and the words ‘ not examined ’ to show that you have n't examined and accepted them |
| 23 | ‘ No , I stayed hidden and gave them time to get away . |
| 24 | Notify the press of your efforts to get a conservation area designated and send them a copy of the booklet you have prepared . |
| 25 | For instance , does your " off-the-street " procedure for dealing with enquiries make the prospective clients feel wanted , well treated and leave them with an impression of an efficient , sympathetic firm capable of providing an expeditious service ? |
| 26 | People are trying to make sense of the bad news they have received , and are asking all sorts of questions as a way of regaining control of a situation that has frightened and disturbed them . |
| 27 | Section 143 requires local authorities to compile registers of land that might be contaminated and open them for public inspection . |
| 28 | But I mean , a lot of people do n't glorify on the jobs they do , I mean Dinda she said you know , it 's awful being the one who 's getting all the all day long , kind of explained and help them with their problems , sympathise with , with something that does n't work she 'd much rather be outdoors than being a or looking after , but she said you know , it 's , it 's a secure job and these days I think well I 'm not I run my own car and they do n't really think that |
| 29 | Roll the window down just enough to make yourself heard and tell them help is on the way . |
| 30 | But unlike the local community , which would have had to organize , collect signatures for a petition , demonstrate and lobby in order to make its views heard and get them noticed , the company needed to do very little . |