Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] they in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry . |
| 2 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | No , I mean , oven chips you can just put them on the tray and bung them in the oven . |
| 5 | They had crossed the market , the shopping centre , passed the churches , chapels , religious meeting rooms , fighting to outdo each other and against the countless bars ; even hoping through the wave of religious revival , and the example set by the Queen herself , that they would eventually withdraw sinners from the flames of hell-fire and place them in the arms of the Lord . |
| 6 | They put pins in their chairs , threw their clothes out of the window and locked them in the bathroom . |
| 7 | First clear the six flat rocks from your plot and drop 'em in the tip . |
| 8 | Supposedly a giant called Cormoran , known as the Lord of St Michael 's Mount , carried the boulders from the mainland and dumped them in the sea to make the mound . |
| 9 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
| 10 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
| 11 | We used to hunt rats in the basement and put them in the traps , when I was a lad . ’ |
| 12 | They they are obliged to take the structure plans strategy and proposals on board and to interpret them in the in the local plan in the round . |
| 13 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 14 | At the dump , we took two yellow bags which had been left by the truck and put them in the boot of a car . |
| 15 | Eddy v Niman is open to the criticism that in the terms of s.3(1) there was an assumption of the rights of the owner when he took the goods from the shelf and placed them in the shopping trolley . |
| 16 | A statement which reads data in internal format from a file and puts them in the specified variables . |
| 17 | Strategies to get round the problem could include selective spraying with conventional insecticides , including two different insecticide genes in plants , or even planting ‘ sacrificial ’ pesticide-free crops to attract some of the susceptible insects away from the protected crop and keep them in the breeding population . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't have to take the dishes out of the dishwasher and put them in the dish rack and then take the cutlery out of its little plastic box and then put it in the cutlery drawer making sure that the spoons go in one compartment and the knives in another compartment and the forks in another compartment except there are always forks in the spoons compartment and knives in the forks compartment when you get there so it 's hopeless it 's always too late to get things right it 's a total frost honestly is life you are a lot better off dead in my opinion . |
| 21 | She had to comply and soon afterwards he was crowned : as the crown was placed on his head his retainers , to a man , drew their swords with a rasp of steel and brandished them in the air . |
| 22 | But then comes the time of differentiation , the time when the busy teacher takes her clothes down to the laundry on a Saturday morning and flings them in the laundry basket in the confidence that they will be returned neatly pressed later in the week . |
| 23 | The main differences I see between the shop here and Christian bookshops in Britain are ( a ) that we can order books from an express supplier in the morning and have them in the afternoon , which is very good and ( b ) that there are more books about Israel and the Jews . |
| 24 | He was going to pick them up out of the gutter and establish them in the monied world where he knew they belonged . |
| 25 | You attach your receipt to the cash voucher and place them in the cash box . |
| 26 | For England , another barren draw would end the year with a groan and put them in the position of having to begin the final run-in to the World Cup after nine months without a goal . |
| 27 | Then it was up to us and the dogs to stalk a heed and chase them in the right direction . |
| 28 | You can stop balls with the coat and catch them in the bucket . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot . |
| 30 | ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot . |