Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] it in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 2 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 3 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 4 | If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song . |
| 5 | Being a war correspondent is a genuinely dangerous job , just like they portray it in the movies . |
| 6 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 7 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 8 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 9 | Scholes provides a useful table , divided into three columns , showing how linguists and philosophers have agreed in making a tripartite division between signifier , signified , and reference , though they present it in a variety of terminologies . |
| 10 | Dinner was exquisite , even though they ate it in the somewhat strained silence of two people who had discovered they had absolutely nothing to say to each other . |
| 11 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 12 | Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) . |
| 13 | There entered her mind a memory of the feast day of the Madonna della Bruna ; it fell in July in the time of the fierce lion sun , as they called it in the hills , and yet the shrine attracted crowds from all Ninfania and all around . |
| 14 | Suppose this chap was Alexandra 's special friend , her Significant Other , as they called it in the States , would n't he get a bit peeved if some strange man appeared at the door asking for her ? |