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Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could !
2	Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd .
3	Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance .
4	Do they affect you in the same way ?
5	But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan .
6	‘ 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 .
7	They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line .
8	And then , when you find they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are .
9	And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize .
10	They put me in the same category as Martinho .
11	I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow
12	They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it .
13	They put us in the padded room overnight .
14	After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’
15	The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours .
16	Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ?
17	Mm , Cathy knew what they called her in the initial stage
18	Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner .
19	They do it in the Labour Club , you can go in there
20	‘ Well , they do it in the normal way usually .
21	it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least
22	‘ And they supported you in the same way ? ’ she asked gently .
23	Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth .
24	At least that 's what they call it in the remote and rugged Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea .
25	They play it in the Soviet Union .
26	They catch any gay guy with AZT , they throw him in the federal penitentiary like Jimmy fucking Cagney , and then they throw us out of the country .
27	Yeah they had them in the little packs , okay ?
28	They had me in the holding cells at headquarters .
29	They carried it in the late-morning edition .
30	‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’