Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 2 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 3 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 4 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 5 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 6 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 7 | However they sounded , Tina took them in the spirit they were intended , laughed loudly and said Jasper must be playing hookey in his lunch hour . |
| 8 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a tremendous performance and Knight kept them in the game . |
| 10 | In the heady fire of consummation Gina knew that the aching loneliness which had dogged her throughout her life was finally ended , her own desire rising to match Rune 's as their mutual need drowned them in the remorselessly rising tide of satisfaction . |
| 11 | Whatever terrors awaited them in the city , it would be better to take a chance than simply wait for death at the hands of the Chelonians . |
| 12 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 13 | All held The big farmers had them in the barn . |
| 14 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 15 | The woman with the Scrabble game rules waved them in the air . |
| 16 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 17 | Will somebody tell me : if the Chicago-based Harmony company mass-produced ten million guitars since 1945 ( as they claim ) , were the guitars so bad that people threw them in the bin like you did with my last letter and lovely photograph ? |
| 18 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 19 | The old cow at the counter popped them in the microwave to warm them for him . |
| 20 | This well-meaning attempt to steer clear of one awkward topic landed them in the midst of another . |
| 21 | We always had plenty of vegetables , for my father grew them in the garden , and during the Second World War , had an allotment too . |
| 22 | ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’ |
| 23 | The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time . |
| 24 | Kate dug them in the meadow grass around the trees in the orchard ( which has only one fruiting tree ) , accompanied now by just two huge sentimental wolfhounds , Petra and Titan , which ‘ trundle about ’ following wherever she goes . |
| 25 | Indeed , the influence of women writers at the time was rising in many areas , as Fanny Burney 's Evelina ( 1778 ) and Hannah Cowley 's dramatic works placed them in the forefront of contemporary literature . |
| 26 | Trouser suits outraged convention when Courrèges introduced them in the 1960s . |
| 27 | Organised by the same curator as the Bagatelle exhibition , Solange Auzias de Turenne , ‘ Moore Intime ’ features a life-size reconstruction of rooms from Moore 's house , ‘ Hoglands ’ , complete with contents down to the books in the same order as the artist left them in the bookcases , and items from his art collection which served as inspiration for his work . |
| 28 | All your twenties were on her little list and when Mr Nassim put them in the bank yesterday he got a nasty shock . |
| 29 | Greg drove them in the factory ambulance across the busy shop-floor , through one of the main entrances and across the grounds to the building that housed the canteen . |
| 30 | They never looked back after Neil Hodgson put them in the lead after 24 minutes , Joe Peel adding tow more before half time . |