Example sentences of "[vb pp] them in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Now you can see Body Shop 's here , I 've got them in a nice box now . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I should have thought they might have had them in a separate house really but I suppose there wo n't be enough of them to begin with |
| 12 | He was still shuffling videos on the shelves as if having suddenly noticed that someone — herself , probably — had replaced them in the wrong order . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've totally removed them in a single market , but there are still elements of harmonisation to be completed . |
| 15 | Their defeat of Grange ‘ D ’ has put them in an unassailable position and they will return to division two after a season 's absence . |
| 16 | I 'd spotted them in a second-hand shop and immediately began saving feverishly to make them mine before anyone else got their hands on them . |
| 17 | If people want to better themselves , they are entitled to enjoy this sort of instruction : it should not be denied them in a civilised society . |