Example sentences of "[verb] they [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were actuated by entirely unselfish motives and their training in trade union work made them invaluable in the most important work — picketing at the entrances to the docks " . |
| 2 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 3 | I had felt it for my mother before my father left when she would intercept his post , putting certain violet-scented envelopes into the pocket of her dress and steaming them open in the kitchen after he had left for work . |
| 4 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 5 | Then further on you found them high in the trees where the water had swept them . |
| 6 | and you can watch them barefoot in the Cotswold water Park this weekend … another Gloucestershire sportsmen who 's celebrating a record is jockey Willie Carson … at the weekend he rode winner number three thousand five hundred … so where better place to start our round-up than in the winners enclosure |
| 7 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 8 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 9 | I put them all in the dustbin before Susan can decide to keep them . |
| 10 | All their special , you know , relics and that and they put them all in the cellars so when it was bombed , all the precio all the treasures and that were kept . |
| 11 | I put them all in the deep freeze . |
| 12 | And catch them alive in the burrows . |
| 13 | We have to help them live in the world without causing harm to others . |
| 14 | With the aid of many ‘ outside ’ advisers , both professional and amateur , we scrutinised them all in the 2 weeks of sorting . |
| 15 | And , she thought , I 'll kill their babies , I 'll drown them all in the bath . |
| 16 | ‘ I just threw them all in the bin , ’ remembers Judith , 27 , from Cambridge . |
| 17 | Worms get them all in the end . |
| 18 | We get them all in the end . ’ |
| 19 | I think it subconsciously gets them interested in the work . ’ |
| 20 | Members will be aware that ex-Councillors and were unsuccessful at the polls and I wish to ask the Council to place on record its thanks to their contribution to the work of this Council made by those members and to wish them well in the future . |
| 21 | Put the woodlice in a small plastic box , bottle or tube to carry them home , then set them free in the pot . |
| 22 | The blubber which keeps them warm in the water acts as an overly-effective insulator on land , and they can literally cook in their own fat if they are not kept cool . |
| 23 | You 've got to water them to keep them moist in the summer and you 've got to have food of course . |
| 24 | It would be perfectly reasonable to keep them all in the same genus . |
| 25 | And they used to stack them all in the cellar . |
| 26 | Oh er , well I 'll take them all in the brass box . |
| 27 | And King is seeking quality crosses as Tranmere bid for a Prenton victory that would take them third in the first division . |
| 28 | What awaits them all in the future ? |
| 29 | for , I 'm gon na have them all in the boot of the car , at all times , so I 'm gon na have two boxes please |
| 30 | I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body . |