Example sentences of "[vb pp] them in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 2 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was still shuffling videos on the shelves as if having suddenly noticed that someone — herself , probably — had replaced them in the wrong order . |
| 8 | And it came to him , with a cold steely horror chilling the bloodstream as if from a lethal injection — he had left them in the stolen mini . |