Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often Minoan worshippers tore branches or boughs from a sacred tree and venerated them on altars or planted them in the sockets between sacral horns . |
| 2 | First Floss and Tibbs retired to their tent to dispel this foretaste of the middle-aged grossness that awaited them in the exercise of their healthy young bodies . |
| 3 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whether this resulted in a concession is not clear , for the authorities appear to have hired and armed a body of men and posted them in the Exchange to arrest the strikers . |
| 10 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 11 | she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground ! |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The guerrillas had allegedly smuggled explosives and weapons , including Soviet Katyusha missiles , into Jordan and used them in the attacks . |
| 15 | ‘ If however , you land a blow which would have caused them serious injury and limited them in the fight , then you get a half point . ’ |
| 16 | So I rang up and told them in the office . |
| 17 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 18 | Then she tore up this letter , and the two or three which followed it , and burned them in the fire . |
| 19 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
| 20 | Breeze flew back for it , and joined them in the street . |
| 21 | ‘ She tore a few pages out and threw them in the bin . |
| 22 | Mrs Smith 's Arnold had confirmed she took her gloves home on Friday and threw them in the dustbin and … |
| 23 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 24 | They roasted the Romanians in the scrum and outplayed them in the loose . |
| 25 | They put pins in their chairs , threw their clothes out of the window and locked them in the bathroom . |
| 26 | When they 'd gone Maggie gathered up the rest of the dishes and piled them in the sink . |
| 27 | It was on the evening of the fourth day that she raised her wings and flexed them in the sea-wind . |
| 28 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 29 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 30 | George washed up his cup and saucer carefully and placed them in the plastic drainer . |