Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A waitress in the hotel said they all remembered the day of the big Piper Alpha rig disaster ‘ in the same way that we remembered where we were when Kennedy was shot ’ . |
| 2 | He went there to Dalby Forest one day in the afternoon loaded them all up and set off for Wales . |
| 3 | While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump . |
| 4 | ‘ And I suppose you only had to flash your smile at the women in the village to have them all falling over themselves to tell you more . ’ |
| 5 | The matrons with their marked brows , hooped earrings and prominent noses had hardly altered , though the scarlet and mulberry cloaks painted in the tombs had vanished from all but the youngest and luckiest women among Davide 's kin , for a single death in the family charred them all , turning young and old into sable-winged crow-women — in churches , at the threshing , at the well , as if flocking in the turned field . |
| 6 | There in the moonlight tearing them all off , throwing them to the street below . |