Example sentences of "and [verb] they in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 2 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 3 | " We 're going to carry the yew berries home in our mouths and eat them in the great burrow . |
| 4 | By separating the glycerides from more readily available fats and assembling them in the required proportions it was possible to match the physical properties of cocoa butter . |
| 5 | The letter expressed the CPSU 's ‘ deep anxiety for the fate of socialism in Poland ’ , regretted that the necessary measures had not been taken against domestic anti-Soviet and anti-socialist forces , and called upon the Polish party to ‘ reverse the course of events and channel them in the right direction ’ . |
| 6 | The new edition of the Oxford Placement Tests now gives you everything you need to test your students , mark their papers , and place them in the right class with accuracy and efficiency . |
| 7 | Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams . |
| 8 | Place a sausage on each of the remaining cocktail sticks and put them in the other orange . |
| 9 | She picked a mixed posy of flowers and put them in the small basket she was carrying , and then wandered down through the orchard . |
| 10 | and put them in the spare room |
| 11 | While I waited , I took the films out of my cameras and put them in the home-made packets . |
| 12 | " Now " he said " write down all the detailed types of communication you think can take place while you 're in College until the end of your courses and put them in the right parts of the chart . |
| 13 | Then see if you can work out what those says and put them in the right places . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They come in during the winter time , and take off their coats and sweaters and put them in the big dryer for a sixpenny warm-up . |
| 16 | She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage . |
| 17 | Tissues respond to the presence of tubercle bacilli by forming a fibrous wall round the organisms and encasing them in the small nodules called tubercles . |
| 18 | Then it was up to us and the dogs to stalk a heed and chase them in the right direction . |
| 19 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 20 | In this arcade adventure the aim is to collect the correct objects and drop them in the right place at the right time . |
| 21 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 22 | Well Danny says get Mark and bung them in the bloody car and bring it home . |
| 23 | The pinder , whose job it was to round up stray animals and keep them in the pinfold , to be released on payment of a fine , was also known as the axeman . |
| 24 | ‘ We are trying to educate young people and point them in the right direction and I do n't think we are fulfilling our duty very well when we have a rule like this . ’ |
| 25 | Allied intelligence assessments suggested that the Communist offensive in Korea was a preliminary skirmish to draw Anglo-American forces eastwards , and to hold them in the Far East while Soviet forces destabilized the politically shaky states of Western Europe . |
| 26 | ‘ People have very quickly got used to the idea of crushing their cans and putting them in the special bins provided . |
| 27 | After them come the foragers whose job it is to collect the spoils and carry them in the great baggage train . |
| 28 | A statement which reads data in internal format from a file and puts them in the specified variables . |
| 29 | With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket . |
| 30 | Clean the gunge that is probably beneath these brushes , rub everything clean and return them in the right order . |