Example sentences of "to [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June town employees were angered because they had to pay six million roubles commission to Jews in order to exchange a hundred million given to them in the form of bonds for their pay . |
| 2 | Midge happened to be standing next to them in the shop where they got the bum 's rush . |
| 3 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 4 | I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures . |
| 5 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 6 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 7 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 8 | ‘ I was a disgrace to them in the eyes of their neighbours . ’ |
| 9 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 10 | We listen to them in the car . |
| 11 | By their day-to-day actions , children can also affect the way in which their parents react to them in the most powerful and direct manner . |
| 12 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 13 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 14 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 15 | When the movement to spread the benefits of restraint through the rest of the city gathered pace in the 1970s , the Germans were fortunate in having the leading exponents of these principles living next door to them in the Netherlands . |
| 16 | In modern terms , he evaluated who was to be evangelised and was willing to take responsibility to go to them in the work of evangelism . |
| 17 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |
| 18 | Now politics has to be reinvented to make parties and programmes and politicians capable of understanding the message that has been sent to them in the spring of 1992 . |
| 19 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 20 | Ipswich captain Debbie Rawlinson is quite happy to be playing Chelmsford , especially after the 3–1 win away to them in the league . |
| 21 | ‘ What happens to them in the wood ? ’ |
| 22 | In fact , the Princess rather overdid this commission for , to keep their pictures flat , most artists pasted their work onto stiff cardboard , thus seriously reducing the space allotted to them in the cabinets . |
| 23 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 24 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 25 | Second , women and men have different responsibilities accorded to them in the domestic division of labour . |
| 26 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 27 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |
| 28 | Then he would use this information to chat knowledgeably and sympathetically to them in the lobbies or the smoking room , often concentrating as much upon the opposition as upon his own supporters . |
| 29 | In the following year they staged a number of occupations of churches , but even that avenue of protest was closed to them in the end , because it became too dangerous . |
| 30 | Finally , it is worth bearing in mind that if , as now seems likely , the process of cephalization occurred independently in several arthropodan lineages ( see p.5 ) , interpretations of the head which rely on comparisons between the insects and other arthropod groups no longer have the validity ascribed to them in the past . |