Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 4 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 5 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
| 6 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 9 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 10 | Get yourself ready , and we 'll see how they enjoy themselves in the Big House . ’ |
| 11 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 12 | And they believe someone in the local community is hiding the killer . |
| 13 | Mm , Cathy knew what they called her in the initial stage |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They do it in the Labour Club , you can go in there |
| 16 | ‘ Well , they do it in the normal way usually . |
| 17 | At least that 's what they call it in the remote and rugged Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea . |
| 18 | They play it in the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yeah they had them in the little packs , okay ? |
| 21 | They had me in the holding cells at headquarters . |
| 22 | They carried it in the late-morning edition . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | far beyond their income and when they get the money they spend it in the wrong direction |
| 25 | They see it in the high standards he and his people consistently achieve . |