Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
2 | I found them in an old file . |
3 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
4 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
5 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
6 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
7 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
8 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
9 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
10 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
11 | She found them in the Green Room . |
12 | ‘ Yous all too late fer lunch , dat finished gone an hour ago , ’ she informed them in no uncertain terms . |
13 | Sure , you loved them in the '70s . |
14 | You lost them in the first place . |
15 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
16 | She kept them in a black velvet bag and would occasionally take them out , when Wakelate was busy , to stand them in the sunlight . |
17 | She kept them in the other day because she sa , erm or something need to keep the , we think it was them anyway with Mrs kept one group in cos erm , she said that someone had nicked off with her pen or something and it was underneath the desk , it had rolled off the desk ! |
18 | But his wife now , she liked them in a motherly kind of way . |
19 | She had them in a big glass jar and if you were very good and special occasions . |
20 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
21 | In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today . |
22 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
23 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
24 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
25 | We kept them in a mud-walled hut and posted a guard to keep watch , armed with a can of paraffin . |
26 | We saved them in a big tin , and when we got to the theatre and she opened it up they were all stuck together in a fluffy lump — pear-drops , and fruit-gums and licorice torpedoes and polo mints , with bits of hair and silver paper and bus tickets sticking out . |
27 | Continuous eruptions created a wilderness of blast and air pockets ; they barely recovered from one sickening jolt before something hurled them in the opposite direction , or the plane stumbled into a vacuum and hit bottom fifty feet down . |
28 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
29 | Yeah they had them in the little packs , okay ? |
30 | They held them in the first half of the game and were only 12-10 down after 10 ends . |