Example sentences of "them [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
| 2 | As well as flying from Madrid to Miami , Iberia can now pick up extra passengers in Miami , ferrying them on in smaller aircraft to six Central American cities and the Mexican resort of Cancun . |
| 3 | At the moment the EMG pickups on the Petersen have a good clean sound , if a little clanky on the top end , but my ideal would be where you had a bass with a thousand different possibilities and you could just slot them in in two seconds flat ! |
| 4 | The square brackets in ( 62 ) merely mark that the whole is to be taken as a complex entity , which is given anyway by our assumption that an E extended remains an E ; if the brackets are not needed in ( 61 ) why are they present in ( 62 ) ; alternatively , why not write them in in both cases ? |
| 5 | They will be ready for November , before the government grant settlement arrives , and work will begin in the finance officer 's department paring them down in bilateral discussions . |
| 6 | Moving underneath them , the whale then rises , gulping them down in one leviathan mouthful . |
| 7 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 8 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 9 | No , they 've put them down in third division now . |
| 10 | By the time London Transport took them over in 1933 , all but two had been so modified . |
| 11 | Should have finished them off in that first |
| 12 | Once you have placed the centre stitches on to waste yarn you can return each set of shoulder stitches to working position and cast them off in one action . |
| 13 | This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX . |
| 14 | Since peasants who still possessed any seed reserves or livestock were excluded from relief , they were compelled to sell them off in some cases in order to survive . |
| 15 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 16 | ‘ I told the police I would take them off in this country , but that I could n't give confirmation I would n't use them abroad . ’ |
| 17 | Imagine that we , the human species , released one billion living spores into the Universe , sending them off in random directions . |
| 18 | We 've tried to love both dogs equally , and simply separate them for a cooling-off period after a fight , rather than telling them off in any way . |
| 19 | If not , simply leave them nearby , and the dog will probably pick them up in due course . |
| 20 | put them up in that middle one . |
| 21 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 22 | Let's say Vargas has picked one of them up in one of those pubs the soldiers frequent round the Tower . ’ |
| 23 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 24 | Daly invents new words , breaks them up in provocative , punning ways ( as with the title ; and therapist becomes the-rapist ) and plays on obsolete meanings , as with glamour ( originally ‘ possessed of magical powers ’ ) , haggard ( connected with witchcraft ) and spinster ( one who spins a new thread ) . |
| 25 | You can often pick them up in second-hand bookshops . |
| 26 | When these new factors are brought out by the informant the interviewer can then follow them up in more detail by a simple prompt , such as ‘ Tell me more about what happened when the old vicar died and this new man came who fell out with the schoolmaster . ’ |
| 27 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 28 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 29 | Dorothea had often wondered about the crumbs , whether they stored them up in some kitchen jar and you got them , months later , coating your fish . |
| 30 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |