Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] them in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 2 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 3 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 4 | Now the first time they tried to change them in May they lost the vote , the women , to increase it from three to four . |
| 5 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 6 | In the meantime , the wartime Lancasters would be replaced , as a stopgap measure , by the unpressurized Lincolns , which would be large enough to carry atomic bombs , if the Government decided to manufacture them in spite of US objections . |
| 7 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 8 | He was the man who supplied the new bicycles , Raleighs , and he undertook to keep them in repair . |
| 9 | But her feet hit the stairs soundly as she went to put them in water . |
| 10 | He then proceeded to read them in terms of this motif . |
| 11 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 12 | Which is going to disappoint an awful lot of women who flocked to see them in town a year ago . |
| 13 | One day they were told that a police officer wished to see them in connection with the charges already preferred . |
| 14 | ‘ But I had to book them in January . |
| 15 | The use of conventional solders to attach minute granules of gold presented great difficulties to the goldsmith who had to keep them in position during soldering and avoid flooding the delicate work with solder . |
| 16 | I therefore am of opinion that a trading corporation may sue for a libel calculated to injure them in respect of their business , and may do so without any proof of damage general or special . |