Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Their defeat of Grange ‘ D ’ has put them in an unassailable position and they will return to division two after a season 's absence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 7 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 8 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 9 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 10 | After Ricky 'd settled them in the drawing room with drinks , he went in search of Perdita . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 13 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 14 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 17 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 19 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 20 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
| 21 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 22 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 23 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 24 | Luke Hunter was the sort of man who rode roughshod over everyone else 's opinions — if she had been there alone she was sure she could have convinced them in a fraction of the time . |
| 25 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 26 | They should have had them in a box . ’ |
| 27 | I should have thought they might have had them in a separate house really but I suppose there wo n't be enough of them to begin with |
| 28 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 29 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 30 | It is ironic that reforms intended to increase efficiency by introducing market disciplines should have undermined them in the one sector in which they already existed . |