Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 2 | We pledge to continue to support them in that . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 6 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 7 | Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 10 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 11 | You tried putting them in two two sets of how many . |
| 12 | ‘ We goin' take these politician' , leetle dog , an' we goin' put them in one beeg hole so they don' come back . |
| 13 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 14 | Because it says put them in individual glasses but er er |
| 15 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Valley Canoe Products have located a source of indestructible deck elastics and hope to offer them in 6 and 8mm sizes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 20 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
| 21 | Did you want to discuss them in private ? |
| 22 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 23 | He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights . |
| 24 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 25 | And you 've got to put them in that framework … |
| 26 | It now seems more fruitful to many political scientists and sociologists to concentrate their analysis upon the political structure and processes of change within fairly well defined types of political system — tribal societies , city-states , bureaucratic empires and other imperial regimes , absolutist states , socialist or capitalist industrial states , and so on — without attempting to locate them in some all-embracing historical scheme . |
| 27 | By abolishing their organs of self-government , attempting to enrol them in secular educational institutions , and trying much harder than earlier legislators to force them out of the countryside into the towns , the Minister of State Properties intensified the subversion of Jewish communal life which had begun when community leaders had to make invidious choices about recruits for the army . |
| 28 | So he began to involve them in some of the decisionmaking about how their environment might be improved , their needs met . |
| 29 | Set against these points is the maintenance problem ; softwood doors need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep them in good condition . |
| 30 | Although we have tried to express these scientific impulses fairly , we hereby give notice that we intend to question them in later chapters . |