Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] them in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I would n't kick out anyone who did n't perform , but when they came back I would make sure I put them in a safe place , ’ he says . |
2 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
3 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
4 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
5 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |
6 | If you put them in a hot room they do n't do so well . |
7 | You put them in a little brazier thing , like a tiny cup , and they smoulder — the man said they 'll scent the whole room . |
8 | Sometimes the they make a fuss if you put them in the wrong place . |
9 | yeah , yeah , and you read them in the international section ? |
10 | When they know you , in a personal capacity , you have credibility when you contact them in a political role . |
11 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
12 | You use them in a Spanish drink called horchata , which is made as follows : |
13 | Remember to slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways : if you do them in the usual way as rings they will be too curved to slide in easily . |
14 | You do , they gr they you see them in a different light . |
15 | McAllion ) very seriously and I suggest that we debate them in a sensible manner . |
16 | But bitter Ferguson refused to blame individuals for United 's continental calamity and said : ‘ We let them in the back door and they stole the game . ’ |
17 | But bitter Ferguson refused to blame individuals for United 's continental calamity and said : ‘ We let them in the back door and they stole the game . ’ |
18 | However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 . |
19 | When computers , as we understand them in a modern sense , first came into use in the early nineteen-fifties , they were huge , expensive and unreliable . |
20 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
21 | So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution . |
22 | ‘ . Derrida says that these two interpretations are absolutely irreconcilable , even though , he adds in his gnomic fashion , ‘ we reconcile them in an obscure economy ’ . |
23 | We have them in a lovely big room with refreshments , buffets and so forth and they have a whole entertainments evening . ’ |
24 | as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one |
25 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
26 | Instead they park them in a special nursery area , packed tightly together so that the loss of heat from their bare bodies is minimised . |
27 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |