Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sharp rocks , or moraine , which were stuck in the glaciers caused them to scrape out the valleys much deeper . |
| 2 | It was a dour afternoon , with few men and women in the streets , which had a pinched , frozen look as if there were not enough fires burning in the houses to keep them snug . |
| 3 | The high proportion of carbohydrates in the leaves makes them an ideal target for creatures that bite and suck out the energy rich sap . |
| 4 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 5 | In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Before , in the Kirov , what happened was that there were eight or ten singers working for one new production each year , and another 50 sitting in the rehearsals criticizing them . |
| 7 | A chill October breeze forced its way through countless gaps and alleys in the structures surrounding them , tugging and pushing when it was least expected , lifting Diane 's hair and flicking it across her face . |
| 8 | The tension in the films draws them towards minimum surface area . |
| 9 | In the interview , Mr Clark admits meeting British firms in the mid-1980s to help them get round a ban on trade with Iraq 's Saddam Hussein . |
| 10 | If more adequate services are to be made available for the expected increase in the numbers needing them , those of working age will have to pay more in central or local taxes . |
| 11 | probably the men who worked in the cisterns used them as a means of travelling from one side of the cavern to the other . |
| 12 | There simply was n't enough stock in the shops to give them any real choice . |
| 13 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 14 | But then , about one year in six , some fortunate swirl in the currents brings them back to the island where they first fell into the water a month earlier and at a high tide in December , a horde of tiny crablets no bigger than ants suddenly emerges from the waves and marches valiantly up the beach and on inland to restock the forest . |
| 15 | A lucky win against Aurillac in the play-offs secured them a place among the last 32 . |
| 16 | ‘ She looks terrible now , but I 'm going to put packing in the cheeks to fill them up again after I 've dried her out . |
| 17 | This gave them a little more freedom , and his habit of falling asleep in the afternoons allowed them to get out of the house sometimes . |
| 18 | This has run into very heavy water in the twentieth century , and not only because of Freud 's onslaught on religion in the name of wish-fulfilment , where he portrayed the idea that people create an imaginary father in the skies to give them comfort . |