Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them in the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 5 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 6 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 7 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 8 | After Ricky 'd settled them in the drawing room with drinks , he went in search of Perdita . |
| 9 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 10 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 11 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 12 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 13 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 21 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 25 | No , mum said if they 'd have come erm , she 'd have put them in the bathroom . |
| 26 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 27 | No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally . |
| 28 | The Jacobite sympathies of the family might well have prejudiced them in the eyes of the early Georges , but George III , especially after falling out with Coutts , had an affectionate and very special relationship with Drummonds . |
| 29 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 30 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |