Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I see they 've instructed you in the story of your birth , since you had so thriving a grudge against me . |
| 2 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 3 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 4 | By the time they 'd stowed everything in the boot of the Ferrari and driven to a hilltop where , Nicolo said , they would have the best view , the sun was a fiery ball low on the hills . |
| 5 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 6 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 7 | ( ‘ They 've kicked us in the teeth so often ’ , ‘ They tried to write us off like they did Kenya ; but we would n't stand for it . ’ ) |
| 8 | and erm I went to a youth club and I I was speaking to eight year olds and they 're asking about condoms cos they 've seen them in the street , so it 's obviously they 're wanting to find out about it cos it 's everywhere around them even , does n't matter what age . |
| 9 | They 've done it in the Vale . |
| 10 | I wager they 've put him in the meanest , coldest room , without even a brazier , after the way he spoke to Matilda . |
| 11 | They 've put it in the sun whatever it is . |
| 12 | no , they 've got them in the garden |
| 13 | yeah , they 've got them in the garden anyway have n't they ? |
| 14 | Yes , but they 're going and then they 've got them in the ponds , they 've got them all in their ponds , so they 're obviously okay , they 're for ponds so it , I think if we probably get ten , fifteen on the , cos I 'm gon na be so used to seeing them , cos I 'm gon na be ordering those , I 'll order all the carps and you 've got as well |
| 15 | — " We know that the first bicycles looked like that because they 've got one in the museum . " |
| 16 | They had missed him in the garden , but now if he was truly a son of Adam he would die . |
| 17 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 18 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 19 | They had discovered it in the bed last night when one of them had found themselves lying on it , and it had been pitched out into the darkness . |
| 20 | They had dressed him in the shoes and suit and overcoat that he had worn when arrested . |
| 21 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 22 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 23 | The Board said that they deserved their percentage because they had put me in the position to attract the money . |
| 24 | One day everyone was laughing and singing in the Delhi gardens , covering each other with pink powder and coloured Holi-water ; the next they had imprisoned themselves in the silent air-conditioned purdah of their bedrooms and offices , waiting patiently for the reprieve of evening . |
| 25 | They would not have recognized him if they had passed him in the street . |
| 26 | They always came in for more than a little if they had offended him in the past . |
| 27 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 28 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 29 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 30 | I am grateful to my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain for the help and opportunities they have given me in the preparation of this book . |