Example sentences of "[vb past] them in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 2 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 3 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 4 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 5 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 6 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 7 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 10 | As the heat of the afternoon penetrated even the cool heavy shutters and stone floors of the farmhouse , the feasting guests gradually reduced their assault on the table , and drowsiness floated in with the warm air , caught them in a soft hug and lulled them to sleep . |
| 11 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 12 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 13 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 14 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 15 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 16 | I found them in an old file . |
| 17 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 18 | The skills and cultures they developed sustained them in a harsh living , and gave them a lasting , non-destructive role in Arctic ecology . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Evans , his second-in-command , ate them in a desperate moment . |
| 21 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 22 | Miller quoted Mark Catesby , who always packed dry seeds in paper and sealed them in a dry gourd shell . |
| 23 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 24 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 25 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 26 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Having counted them ( there were 95 ) and gone back to Washington , he handed them in a rolled-up newspaper to Secord in the lobby of the Sheraton Carlton hotel . |
| 29 | The Oscar joined them in a pretty well-populated four foot tank in early May and appeared to ignore and be ignored by everybody . |
| 30 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |