Example sentences of "them in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically , the Danzig Poles and Kaszubians were leaderless and the departure of the gentry left them in the indifferent care of a German Catholic hierarchy . |
| 2 | This left them in the ludicrous position of having to claim that , out of loyalty to their sovereign lady , they were embattled against their sovereign lady 's mother . |
| 3 | In two months Sussex saw 103 separate incidents , two-thirds of them in the eastern half where the restrictive paternalism of the great landowners was less pervasive than in the west . |
| 4 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 5 | The grave , on the contrary , has them in the minimal sense of its being merely an emphatic statement of someone 's duties towards it . |
| 6 | To further complicate matters , it 's sometimes necessary to move blocks to a safe place first , but again taking care to get them in the correct sequence for later use . |
| 7 | He was going to pick them up out of the gutter and establish them in the monied world where he knew they belonged . |
| 8 | The Press Box must have been like a morgue when David McCallan scored that goal against them in the Irish Cup quarter final . |
| 9 | ‘ I played for Scotland Under-21 against them in the European Championship quarter-final tie last season , when we were two goals behind on aggregate and then scored three times in the final 20 minutes to win . |
| 10 | Treaty , included the right not only to take up activities as a self-employed person but also to pursue them in the broad sense of the term and that ‘ The renting of premises for business purposes furthers the pursuit of an occupation and therefore falls within the scope of article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 11 | Apart from the shame of being kept in like a naughty schoolboy , the constant automatic repetition of the lines taken out of the context of the play could often lodge them in the leakiest actor 's mind . |
| 12 | I could apply their larger statements about the futility of life to the smaller futility of my own , at the same time identifying with them in the literal sense and recognising the irony inherent in any such identification . |
| 13 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 14 | Here you can discover the latest developments in commercially grown mushrooms , asparagus and chicory on a grand scale , and watch how to cook them in the culinary theatre . |
| 15 | Perhaps it could also be blamed on having flicked past hundreds of dull photos of them in The Scots Magazine over the years , showing old men with their shirt sleeves rolled up , pointing at some rolling , lumpy , big hills with the caption reading , ‘ The mighty Cairngorms are a sight for sore eyes in any rambler 's book ’ . |
| 16 | It is ironic that reforms intended to increase efficiency by introducing market disciplines should have undermined them in the one sector in which they already existed . |
| 17 | ‘ What we found initially was that individual mussel meats were small because there were so many of them in the one place . |
| 18 | He put them in the warm water . |
| 19 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 20 | Odysseus met with them in the wine-dark sea of the Mediterranean and called them Cyclops , Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 21 | And when you 've er loose them in the fore end or the front of the lock or do anything like that that article as it 's in , when you lock it out it 's got ta fit just as tight when it 's locked out as when it 's in . |
| 22 | The Egyptian vulture , finding a clutch of ostrich eggs , picks up sizeable stones in its beak and with a nod of its head , tosses them in the general direction of the nest . |
| 23 | Instead he was still with the group when Jesus came and stood with them in the upper room ; he was still there , crucially , when Christ questioned him searchingly . |
| 24 | no , erm Paula you can get them in the frozen food section love |
| 25 | The dislocation happened and he saw this stout , handsomely dressed man , almost gasping m front of a pale-eyed , pale-faced clergyman , the two of them in the consecrated atmosphere of a church which could trace back its foundation on that spot through about thirteen hundred years . |
| 26 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 27 | Well you can get them in the financial press , erm usually the Telegraph on a , on a weekend or the Money Mail or the , any of the loca any good quality paper , or you can buy some of the financial guides that you get in er , in er newsagents these days . |
| 28 | Tall grass swayed around them in the gentle breeze , and the sun reflected dully off the stones ' pitted surfaces . |
| 29 | Concern over the standard of living of servicemen was answered by Yeltsin , who detailed provisions for them in the Russian budget . |
| 30 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |