Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 2 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 3 | I discussed them in some detail in the chapter on event planning . |
| 4 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 5 | And er then I left them in forty six and went back to me first love , and er it was a little self contained union . |
| 6 | I shot them in cold blood and I enjoyed every minute of it … |
| 7 | TWICE IN MY LIFE I have consciously avoided meeting someone , because I held them in such awe . |
| 8 | Rod Hale and Grant Parrott both sustained injuries which incapacitated them in various ways . |
| 9 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 10 | But if someb if somebody put them in plain language to me , |
| 11 | They belong to the British Museum , which bought them in 1816 from Lord Elgin , as every schoolboy knows . |
| 12 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 13 | She took them in unsteady hands stained with grave marks , and peered with suspicion at the manufacturer 's name . |
| 14 | Until recently the plates were on long-term loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh , having been lent in 1956 by collector and supporter of the North Carolina Museum , Robert Humber who purchased them in 1938 . |
| 15 | The legal dispute over the relics has been between Mr John Claridge , who excavated them in 1931 , and his niece , Mrs Georgina Smith , the daughter of his brother , Geoffrey , who died in 1986 . |
| 16 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
| 17 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 18 | But we called them in Welsh do you see . |
| 19 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 20 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 21 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 22 | It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation . |
| 23 | His two teenage sons were fanatically keen on farming and he encouraged them in all the agricultural skills ; but he fed the calves himself . |
| 24 | He addressed them in short , pithy sentences and promptly began his interrogation of each of them . |
| 25 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 26 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 27 | Collinson was also instrumental in promoting the Dictionary abroad and , having become an agent for the Library Company of Philadelphia , he presented them in 1732 , with Sir Isaac Newton 's Philosophy and Philip Miller 's Gardeners Dictionary . |
| 28 | He left them in safe hands . |
| 29 | It stood them in good stead again in 1976 when drought caused many villages to be supplied with stand pipes . |