Example sentences of "[verb] them [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | Another result is that firms make ‘ supernormal ’ profits ( profits in excess of those necessary to induce them to remain in the industry ) at consumers ' expense . |
| 3 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 4 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 5 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 6 | Far from being an eyesore , local people get pleasure seeing them blowing in the wind . |
| 7 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 8 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 9 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 10 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 11 | Is not the most practical step that he could take to help renewables to allow those people working on tide , wind , coppicing and other renewables in the Atomic Energy Authority a separate organisation free from the foolish need to produce short-term profits , allowing them to invest in the advantages of renewables , which are essentially long-term ? |
| 12 | More important , trade would tie their economies into the global market , allowing them to specialise in the things they do best , and helping governments to consolidate their economic reforms . |
| 13 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 14 | ‘ The college has been great offering to find a school for the children , and after school I will be encouraging them to join in the dance and fitness classes for children at the college . ’ |
| 15 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 16 | We have a serious mission to accomplish , we four and I do n't want them getting in the way . ’ |
| 17 | Er and obviously if we 've got thousands of those coming to each three regional offices we 've got to find some method of distributing them , we do n't want them left in the office do we ? |
| 18 | I doubt if they would in this well I would n't want them to come in the fog |
| 19 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 20 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 21 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 22 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw state policemen drag strikers across the road and make them kneel in the ditch there while they held shotguns in their backs . |
| 24 | ‘ Because I 've already told Mr Priest we just do n't have room for any more , unless you want them to sleep in the cellar . |
| 25 | NOW THAT the Carry On series has them rolling in the aisles once more with Carry On Imperialism , NME takes a look at whatever happened to the original team . |
| 26 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 27 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 28 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 29 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 30 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |