Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] them in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 2 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 3 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 4 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 5 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |