Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night we celebrated the defeat of Italy — our brigadier ordered a rum ration to all ranks in honour of the occasion — yet I ca n't help feeling just a bit sorry for the Italians , and have never found it in my heart to dislike them as I do the Germans . |
| 2 | If my sons want to train as chartered accountants , I shall do everything in my power to persuade them otherwise . |
| 3 | I mean , erm , I know my youth officer in my area takes them as individuals where the , they are youngsters who perhaps would benefit from that . |
| 4 | The smoke blows in my eyes making them water and sting , so I get up , move and freeze my ass off sitting beyond the smoke in the wind up the valley . |
| 5 | But something in my mind hated them . |
| 6 | Only the blue and yellow vegetable dyes in their hair distinguished them . |
| 7 | Or are they the products of society , constrained in their desires and goals , as well as in their ability to realise them ? |
| 8 | The explanation appears to be that shepherds at high altitudes reverse their cigars in their mouths to prevent them blowing out in the wind ! |
| 9 | The previous one had never been clean before the next one arrived ; they had had dummies shoved in their mouths to keep them quiet until they were four or five ; and they crawled , ran and fell around the place — filthy , whining and hungry — until Onyx was forced to give them some of the attention they needed . |
| 10 | A transvestite told me it helped people like him to accept themselves — and the women in their lives to accept them . |
| 11 | Their closely cropped hair and the drawn pale look of hunger in their faces gave them that terrifying animal uniformity which falls over all human beings in permanent physical distress . |
| 12 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 13 | ‘ Norton residents do n't want these environmentally damaging pylons erected near their homes and I shall support them in their campaign to oppose them , ’ she said . |
| 14 | But sociological explanations of this kind have nevertheless been incorporated into the general category of positivist criminology because of their implication that the invention is not freely made but forced : some problem confronted by individuals in their environment pushes them out of convention and into crime . |
| 15 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 16 | If the local authority do not have a list of housing associations in their area ask them for the address of the regional office of the Housing Corporation , who can give you a list . |
| 17 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |
| 18 | But even here the story does not end , for after fifteen or twenty years , the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed , slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river , lying up by day in damp holes , enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath . |
| 19 | Those statements may be true or false , but there is nothing in their form to exclude them at the outset from consideration . |
| 20 | Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly . |
| 21 | A succession of rescheduling deals , known by the places — Toronto , Trinidad — in which creditors dreamt them up , have been proposed in recent years . |
| 22 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 23 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 24 | Nowadays , increasingly , we try to listen to such works as Acis and Galatea and the Cecilian Ode in the form in which Handel composed them ; to hear them through the prism of the classical musical consciousness is disconcerting . |
| 25 | On a closed-string staircase , fillets between spindles may be missing , in which case replace them as necessary , nailing them in place . |
| 26 | Individuals develop a sense of worth to themselves and to others by the ways in which people treat them and their communities . |
| 27 | His wife failed to persuade the judges to include him amongst the prisoners released in the celebrations of the coronation of Charles II , and in her bitterness told them that her husband was being denied justice because he was a tinker and a poor man . |
| 28 | Mrs Hill , on the other hand , with her vague indifference , did not rouse their cruelty , so their behaviour in her classes left them unashamed . |
| 29 | But next instant , he came closer and his fingers cradled her face , the box in her hands keeping them apart . |
| 30 | The behaviour of Violet Needham 's young characters and the patterns and manners in her books make them period pieces nowadays ; her prim , earnest , winning girls and ardent , courteous boys are as alien to our times as Marco Lorestan is . |