Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 2 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 3 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 4 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 5 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 6 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
| 7 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 8 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 9 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 10 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 11 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 12 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 13 | To follow the close-up of the pre-headed letter , the first shot should show all the performers together to establish them in the setting . |
| 14 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 15 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 16 | The capital was large enough to provide them with the anonymity they badly needed . |
| 17 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 18 | Vasquez argues that the work carried out by Behaviouralists was based on three central assumptions of Realism , which together put them in the same broad camp . |
| 19 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 20 | All employees are issued a with a security card which not only allows them into the building but also stores details of their credit facilities . |
| 21 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
| 22 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 23 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 24 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 25 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 26 | These are no longer needed and are best killed to prevent them from spreading to the food cupboard , so drop them into the methylated spirits jar . |
| 27 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 28 | So tell them about the new-look BROWNIE . |
| 29 | Yes , so get them into the habit of doing it . |
| 30 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |