Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their religious faith has sustained them in sickness , and in health has prompted concern for the ills of others . |
| 2 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 3 | However , even if they do not make the play-offs , the Chiefs have achieved a degree of respectability that has eluded them in past seasons . |
| 4 | Miller has seen them in action and concedes : ‘ They are in great shape . ’ |
| 5 | A sample of the agency 's clients will be asked how the advice given by the agency has helped them in running their small business . |
| 6 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 8 | The taxman ought to require companies to reveal at the end of each tax year how much each company car insured for private use has cost them in depreciation , insurance , servicing and fuel . |
| 9 | As one who , to the detriment of temper , finger tips and nails , has removed them in their thousands from letters and archives , I implore mercy from any like-minded custodians . |
| 10 | They could be joint bottom tomorrow if things go wrong and I know all about the Forest jinx that has haunted them in recent years . |
| 11 | In effect , Ayer has put them in a ghetto and they are happy to remain there , content to be making statements of nonsense in the assurance that what to the believer are the words of God must necessarily appear to the unbeliever mere gobbledygook . |
| 12 | Their defeat of Grange ‘ D ’ has put them in an unassailable position and they will return to division two after a season 's absence . |
| 13 | Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party . |
| 14 | Unemployment has also played a part as a recruiting sergeant for the underclass , both in the way it has selected its membership , and in the way it has held them in place . |
| 15 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 16 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 17 | Hundreds of flowers she could n't name , she 'd seen them in her grandmother 's garden , in her mother 's garden , in neglected gardens all over . |
| 18 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 19 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 20 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 21 | Plus cigarette cards if they 'd got them in their pockets . |
| 22 | I went out to bring the washing in and he 'd got them in his mouth ! |
| 23 | After Ricky 'd settled them in the drawing room with drinks , he went in search of Perdita . |
| 24 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 25 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 26 | ‘ It looked as though if you 'd left them in a ring on their own , one of them would have had to drop down dead to end the fight . |
| 27 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 28 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |