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 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 4 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 5 | He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Try to meet them in non-political situations and when you do not want anything from them . |
| 9 | " Dull for the telephone men , I 'm afraid , " I said , " but try to keep them in good heart . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Gradually children will come to understand them in various contexts and so use them in their own play . |
| 15 | So they can be the deciding factor in what your programme 's going to be , so it pays to keep them in good trim . |
| 16 | The early industrialists were proud of their achievements and liked to have them in full view . |
| 17 | You 're only meant to take them in small quantities now . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They may be unwilling to face their feelings and emotions , preferring to drown them in continuous drinking . |
| 21 | They have to cope them in accepted rites |
| 22 | No doubt , having aired these feelings well in public he will be exerting pressure behind the scenes to ensure there is no further need to repeat them in open audience . |
| 23 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |