Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I shot them in cold blood and I enjoyed every minute of it …
2 ‘ We are putting a lot of money into these core plants to improve their efficiency and reduce variable costs , ’ Ewart emphasizes , ‘ It is vital that we keep them in good shape . ’
3 As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written .
4 ‘ Where goods are sold in market overt , according to the usage of the market , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of any defect or want of title on the part of the seller . ’
5 ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’
6 He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser .
7 It stood them in good stead again in 1976 when drought caused many villages to be supplied with stand pipes .
8 ‘ Holy Cross played very hard and spread the floor well which made it difficult for us to trap them in open play .
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