Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] them in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 2 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 3 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 4 | He hated changing in front of others — and this from a man who played rugby with fourteen other men week in week out for years and must have huddled with them in the cramped and corrugated spaces of dressing rooms up and down the country . |
| 5 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 6 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 7 | Though ‘ the diagram I have in view ’ includes particular details , ‘ there is not the least mention made of them in the proof of the proposition . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 9 | Edward Pitt had called on them in the evening . |
| 10 | The Caribbeans who came to London in the main waves of migration in the 1950s and early 1960s were not on the whole from the lowest social classes , although " the employment made available to West Indians was mainly menial and often of lower status than the jobs they had left behind them in the West Indies " ( Dalphinis 1991 : 46 ) . |
| 11 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |