Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 2 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 3 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 4 | We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful . |
| 5 | Most people keep a gun or two in the house ; some carry them around with them , or stow them in the glove compartments of their cars . |
| 6 | In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded . |
| 7 | Or leave them in the trolley . |
| 8 | The end result will be no different whether the shareholder takes up his or her rights or sells them in the market ; the end value of the holding will remain unchanged . |
| 9 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 10 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 11 | Yet in spite of the drive to encourage employers to recruit more people with physical or mental difficulties — or retain them in the wake of ill-health — too many are still backing off from taking on such staff , according to the Department of Employment . |
| 12 | In any case , if Siward knew fresh forces were coming , you 'd expect him either to gather his forces and try to reverse the battle quickly , or to muster them in the forest and get away before the rest of the enemy could arrive . ’ |
| 13 | They have , therefore , fewer cultural resources with which to resist the forces that place them in the underclass . |
| 14 | It is easy to see that studying the growth and modifiability of neurons is a much harder task than describing them in the state you normally find them , so it is not surprising that much less is known , and all I can do here is to point out some of the interesting possibilities that are opening up . |
| 15 | Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap . |
| 16 | He is now a forgotten man who will while away his twilight years alone and insecure in an alien land , longing to return to Russia.The KGB has not been slow to remind its senior intelligence personnel of the isolated lifestyle that awaits them in the West should they be tempted to defect , pointing out the benefits of enjoying a relatively luxurious and secure existence in Russia . |
| 17 | Rather than write them in the book , just put the answers down either on a on a piece of paper . |
| 18 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 19 | I must also criticise a system that puts them in a position in which problems occur . |
| 20 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 21 | First Floss and Tibbs retired to their tent to dispel this foretaste of the middle-aged grossness that awaited them in the exercise of their healthy young bodies . |
| 22 | Better than finding them in a flap and fearing higher rates , as they were a week ago . |
| 23 | ‘ In despair , Rol asked them what he could do for his people except lead them in the killing of others in the land . |
| 24 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 25 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 26 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 27 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 28 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 29 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 30 | He has studied the details of their forms and physiognomy and renders them in a manner both truthful and original . |