Example sentences of "[to-vb] they in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 2 | They acquired a wider notoriety five months later , when de Gaulle decided to champion them in a press conference ( 4 February 1965 ) . |
| 3 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 4 | When planting species of this group , it is better to plant them in a cluster or bunch . |
| 5 | Associative and cognitive theories present two major examples of different approaches to the study of learning , and although they differ in very many respects it is possible to synthesise them in a way that offers guidance for teachers . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend knows that our policy on interest rates is to set them in a way that is compatible with our commitment to the pound 's band within the exchange rate mechanism and to bear down on inflation . |
| 7 | The average Russian ca n't afford a Montego at the moment , but if the economy improves then some skilled workers and farmers may be able to afford them in a couple of years . |
| 8 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 9 | Indeed , Picasso 's admiration for various complementary , at times even formally opposed categories of tribal sculpture is indicative of the instinctive pull which he was feeling between an increased interest in solid , sculptural forms and an awareness of the need to depict them in a manner that did not violate the flat , two-dimensional plane on which he was working . |
| 10 | For around 500 years , man and dog have pitted their wits against ducks to trap them in a decoy net . |
| 11 | You intend to pile them in a wall which will , |
| 12 | This range of factors all create changes which result in the constant need to rethink and repackage IM principles in the light of current business plan priorities and technical developments and to express them in a way which makes cultural sense within the organisation . |
| 13 | But it is difficult , it seems to me , to use them in a sort of very locational sense which is being suggested by their use as one of the criteria . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got to leave them in a taxi-cab in Inkeroinen . ’ |
| 15 | ( 3 ) Although some of the sung texts could be interpreted in a serious way , the dramatic situation is such as to cast them in a comic , or even burlesque , light . |
| 16 | Even when children care desperately for their elderly parents and have to put them in a home because of lack of personal resources , they are not always able to keep up regular contact because of moving to find employment . |
| 17 | Certainly , for household products , it makes sense to put them in a household setting . |
| 18 | Nor is it much use to put them in a pocket , for the rigours of the downward journey are such that they arrive at ground level in the form of an omelette . |
| 19 | If you buy green bananas a handy tip for speeding up their ripening is to put them in a bag together with some apples or kiwi fruit . |
| 20 | But , Himmelfarb ( 1968 p 78 ) argued , its designer was not concerned by the building 's intrinsic potential for despotic control : " To Bentham … if it was in the interest of society to confine them in a Panopticon , to subject them to an absolute master , to exploit their labor … [ then ] it was necessary and proper that all this be done . |
| 21 | said you want to put 'em in a bag and shake 'em up . |
| 22 | Larger seedlings will block out the light from smaller ones , so try to keep them in a row at the back . |
| 23 | We 'll have another message to send them in a minute . ’ |
| 24 | Ecology was a parallel move designed not to transcend field studies , but to transform them in a way that would make them genuinely scientific . |
| 25 | These tiny grooves , over time , redeposit accumulated bone minerals in concentric layers to release them in a fluid state into the bloodstream when needed in a hurry , say when a violent spurt of activity is needed . |
| 26 | Table 3.3 shows some alternative orderings for a word list of 2461 words , together with the number of edges needed to represent them in a dawg structure . |
| 27 | To develop them in a form that meets people 's real wishes as opposed to the cheapest option or the easiest available option . |
| 28 | Not wishing to drop them in a crater , he obligingly pointed them towards the road to Belleek . |
| 29 | What employers will be interested in is the confidence and faith you have in yourself to revise and update your clinical skills in order to place them in a service context . |
| 30 | Attention must be paid to the age of persons with a mental handicap so as to house them in a group which respects this . |