Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] them " in BNC.

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1 Robert noticed a long , thirsty — or was it hungry ? — look exchanged between them .
2 Caring for people means that you get attached to them , you get irritated by them , angry , bored , sad .
3 Pay fifty and thirty quid a week more is a bloody what they get stopped off them .
4 Children fall out of them or get trapped under them , and adults get sprained wrists , strained backs and bruised shins because of their design .
5 While the Forgen 's output is not impressive , it is , however , a much safer design than its competitors ; the blades are designed to throw out anything which accidentally get caught in them .
6 ‘ You 're going to get a job and get shot of them as quick as possible .
7 Erm we get complaints from you know good people who get pestered by them .
8 Men who get pestered by them .
9 It seems almost impossible to do anything with them ; therefore , the view has grown , get rid of them . ’
10 ‘ I threw it away because it was totally unsaleable , ’ he says , putting into practice another lesson from his father : never look at your mistakes , get rid of them because they 'll annoy you .
11 Get rid of them nasty things down your throat what 's harbouring the germs .
12 Been there since the house was built , generation after generation — never get rid of them . ’
13 Take them home , get rid of them .
14 Either we use them properly or we get rid of them .
15 Get rid of them , ’ said Tabitha .
16 Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ?
17 Get rid of them now . "
18 Get rid of them today and develop some trust in your team .
19 Melinda pleaded a headache and went inside , and I took them across the road to the soft drinks stall to hear the report of the uncle , and then get rid of them .
20 ‘ Do you want me to take a trip and get rid of them ? ’
21 Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can .
22 Just get rid of them and I wo wo n't have to worry about them any more .
23 So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible .
24 Just get rid of them .
25 The one thing he could n't do was sell or get rid of them .
26 that it 's barely worth their while to erm to employ try and get rid of them by doing that er which er which means that there should n't be redistribution of land that much and therefore
27 Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them !
28 Get rid of them . ’
29 They get rid of them .
30 ‘ Even then you get the gawp brigade - but we soon get rid of them . ’
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