Example sentences of "[verb] they in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had some discussion at somewhere , that we decided that erm to include them in the divisional training , Yeah . |
| 2 | In the main these were the moving of all the machinery from the Frame Shops themselves and Body-Shop lean-to , relocating them in the Old Lifting Shop ( No 34 on the 1906 map ) , and the introduction of welded frames . |
| 3 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 4 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 5 | She had written to them at once after Mr Renfrew 's visit , encompassing them in the great outpouring of gratitude that had flooded her , and received from her father in reply a letter that had shocked her and alarmed her . |
| 6 | " We 're going to carry the yew berries home in our mouths and eat them in the great burrow . |
| 7 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 10 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 11 | The letter expressed the CPSU 's ‘ deep anxiety for the fate of socialism in Poland ’ , regretted that the necessary measures had not been taken against domestic anti-Soviet and anti-socialist forces , and called upon the Polish party to ‘ reverse the course of events and channel them in the right direction ’ . |
| 12 | The new edition of the Oxford Placement Tests now gives you everything you need to test your students , mark their papers , and place them in the right class with accuracy and efficiency . |
| 13 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 14 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 15 | Given then that all public sector organizations will keep meticulous records of debtors , it is hard to see that much effort is saved by not incorporating them in the double entry . |
| 16 | The grave , on the contrary , has them in the minimal sense of its being merely an emphatic statement of someone 's duties towards it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 19 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 20 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 21 | What becomes the English language starts as the dialect of a minority and is imposed upon the majority , usually by force , with legal punishments for those who refuse the schooling which will induct them in the national language . |
| 22 | Having identified the main sectors we can now include them in the circular flow approach adopted in Figure 1.2 . |
| 23 | If you have any special requests you must include them in the special request box on the booking form , but please note that special requests are not guaranteed and are subject to availability . |
| 24 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 25 | Most days they were invisible behind low cloud , but if Martha could not see them she could always feel them in the cold fury of the river and the eddying downdraughts of chill air which occasionally penetrated the valley . |
| 26 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 27 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 28 | Put them in the hot seat and question then to find out . |
| 29 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 30 | and put them in the spare room |