Example sentences of "them [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 2 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 3 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 4 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 5 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 6 | They might have them frozen in the frozen bit , frozen gateaux and stuff |
| 7 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 8 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 9 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 10 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 11 | ( 1981 ) also shows how positive measures to meet the needs of visually handicapped pupils can help them to flourish in a happy community atmosphere . |
| 12 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 13 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 14 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 15 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 16 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 17 | An ordinary freedom-fighter or revolutionary — and there were a great many of them operating in the Holy Land at the time — might well have won popular support for his actions , but could not have been acclaimed as the Messiah . |
| 18 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 19 | All these strategies have the potential to involve all pupils in mathematical challenge , enabling them to engage in a broader curriculum . |
| 20 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |
| 21 | Once into the trees , they lost sight of the sun and the sky and had to rely on the compass to keep them heading in the right direction . |
| 22 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't you dare beat me up , you nasty nasty man , I 'm a policeman ! ’ one of them shrieked in a mocking falsetto . |
| 24 | ‘ I found them wrapped in a brown-paper parcel with ‘ Dirty Books ’ scrawled on the outside with a purple pencil . ’ |
| 25 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 26 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 27 | For some it may be that the act of crying was left free for them to use in a healthy way . |
| 28 | Is it ethical for man to interfere with the genetic constitution and physiological functions of living organisms , especially of man and the higher animals , in order to make them perform in a different way ? |
| 29 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 30 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |