Example sentences of "[verb] them in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores .
2 When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig .
3 Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks .
4 He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too .
5 We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out .
6 Incidentally , if you have any items which you think would be of interest to the Residents , your scribe would be happy to include them in the Newsletter .
7 When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey .
8 See when you get them socks off then why do n't you throw them in the bin .
9 I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild .
10 She could n't look out to see them in the yard .
11 Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh .
12 They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’
13 Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ?
14 Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children .
15 This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they .
16 The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level .
17 It has achieved a great deal of support from anecdotal evidence ( see Johnston , 1980 , for example ) , which clearly suggests that Senators and Representatives have been able to channel very substantial volumes of Federal money towards their home States , thereby promoting their political reputations , assisting them in the search for campaign funds , and enhancing their re-election prospects .
18 Sometimes we shave them , other times we have to sit them in the bath with hot water up to their necks and soak it off . ’
19 As we praise God for all our circumstances , seeing them in the light of his presence and love , then we become literally ‘ thankful persons ’ , transfused by a new radiance of joy and thanksgiving .
20 She stripped the bed and put Ruth 's treasures , carefully wrapping the glass , her books and the bear into two cardboard boxes from the supermarket , and stowed them in the bottom of the wardrobe .
21 When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ?
22 The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches .
23 You failed them in the election , will you help to keep them afloat now ?
24 the colours and everything and the order you want them , but the little figures erm , she buys them and she just paints them , and that 's how she could make er the ones for Shirley er for me , erm she gets little soldiers and she can paint them in the camouflage dress
25 Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave .
26 Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest .
27 As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks .
28 Why do n't we locate them in the middle of , of fields ? why do they have them at all ?
29 Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life .
30 At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market .
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