Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] them in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 2 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 3 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 4 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 5 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 6 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 7 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
| 8 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 9 | He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights . |
| 10 | And you 've got to put them in that framework … |
| 11 | Set against these points is the maintenance problem ; softwood doors need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep them in good condition . |
| 12 | Although we have tried to express these scientific impulses fairly , we hereby give notice that we intend to question them in later chapters . |
| 13 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 14 | Do not attempt to organise them in any type of pattern other than under the major heading of asset or liability . |
| 15 | Try to meet them in non-political situations and when you do not want anything from them . |
| 16 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 17 | " Dull for the telephone men , I 'm afraid , " I said , " but try to keep them in good heart . |
| 18 | I have noticed that when older people put out chairs in preparation for a church meeting they will tend to place them in straight rows and arrange them further back from the speaker . |
| 19 | Philips kept their ownership of the buildings and equipment used in the preparation and serving of the food , but made them available to ISS without charge ( while undertaking to maintain them in good order ) and Philips even paid for the electricity , water and telephone costs involved in the canteen operation and for the removal of waste . |
| 20 | Keeping braillers , typewriters and even magnifiers in their cases , or at least under covers when not in use , helps to maintain them in good condition , since dust and grime can cause damaged surfaces . |
| 21 | Yet if we are not allowed to use them in contextual cross-references , how can we succeed in saying what we wish to say , namely that they do not designate any existent ? |
| 22 | Gradually children will come to understand them in various contexts and so use them in their own play . |
| 23 | So they can be the deciding factor in what your programme 's going to be , so it pays to keep them in good trim . |
| 24 | The early industrialists were proud of their achievements and liked to have them in full view . |
| 25 | You 're only meant to take them in small quantities now . |
| 26 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 27 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 28 | This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions . |
| 29 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 30 | So , getting down to specifics , the two species mentioned both make excellent aquarium subjects , the only cause for concern being whether they have been maintained in brackish water or already acclimatised to freshwater if you wish to maintain them in this environment . |