Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if the incentives are too high , they may themselves distort the market , by giving the beneficiaries an unfair advantage or enabling them to operate in a way which does not reflect genuine supply and demand . |
| 3 | ‘ Not to play at soldiers with your men , or let them play in the band in the park on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | You have the choice of cleaning the Discs in position or removing them to wash in the sink . |
| 5 | Both her mortality and her immortality scared them until they kept their distance , and invented stories about her powers that made them shiver in their bones . |
| 6 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 7 | She knew better than to urge them to dress in the fashions Lachlan had learned abroad ; but all the maids were driven frantic sewing silk and linen , gold thread , fur and leather . |
| 8 | They might accept that they are a privileged group , receiving an assurance that frees them to act in the world without fear and uncertainty . |
| 9 | As Adam Smith remarks in 1759 : ‘ When a person comes into his chamber , and finds the chairs all standing in the middle of the room , he is angry with his servant , and rather than see them continue in that disorder , perhaps takes the trouble himself to set them all in their places with their backs to the wall . |
| 10 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 11 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 12 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 13 | It contends that attempts to generate institutions capable of dealing with Britain 's long-term economic problems are thwarted by a political system that encourages an adversary relationship between the two main political parties , one that enables them to alternate in office so that each undoes the work of the other . |
| 14 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 15 | ‘ I saw state policemen drag strikers across the road and make them kneel in the ditch there while they held shotguns in their backs . |
| 16 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 17 | On the positive side though , these politicians got things done , and got them done in detail ( the use by Kleon , then absent from Athens , of his son-in-law Thoudippos to move the complex reassessment decree of 425 implies efficiency and a refusal to trust to luck . |
| 18 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 19 | This is performed by resuspending 50 g of diatoms ( Sigma D 5-384 ) in 500 ml of water , and allowing them to settle in a 500 ml measuring cylinder for 3 hours . |
| 20 | Gradually there was added a whole range of extra payments to give doctors financial inducements to provide adequate surgery facilities and to encourage them to practise in unpopular industrial and inner-city areas , and in remote rural areas . |
| 21 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 22 | If then they still do not help , bring all your people and let them stay in the office until it is done . |
| 23 | If so , estimate how long this will take , call the candidates for interview that much earlier than you would otherwise have done , and let them know in the letter that they are to be given a tour first . |
| 24 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 25 | They would salt them down and let them lie in the brine for a while and they would take them out and dry them . |
| 26 | He 'd done so once , and seen them writhing in silent laughter . |
| 27 | Our results confirm those of Wu and Wilcox ( 27 ) and extend them to identify in more detail the sites that are bound by the VZV 140k DNA binding domain . |
| 28 | The southern African countries can salt away their ivory stocks in the bank until the day trade resumes , and watch them increase in value . |
| 29 | It gives me the opportunity to see God in young people and watch them develop in their faith in the short time that they are here . |
| 30 | I step on a few and watch them crack in the middle like a sheet of glass . |