Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 2 | They sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology . |
| 3 | They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 4 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 5 | Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that . |
| 6 | And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know . |
| 7 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 8 | They put me in the prison hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 10 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 11 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 12 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 13 | They wheel you over and they put you in the bath and they start stripping off your bandages which is absolute agony . |
| 14 | The Philistines carry it from their camp to the town of Ashdod , and there they put it in the temple of their god Dagon . |
| 15 | I thought they said they put it in the back bit . |
| 16 | Groups go up there and they pay the money for it and they put it in the middle while you 're waiting for the film , it 's all carpeted and you can watch all the monitors and they just sit down this huge tub of popcorn they had an op |
| 17 | How people use this and they put it in the dictionary . |
| 18 | they put it in the tea . |
| 19 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , when they stop me in the street , at least half of them call me Mr Darcy . |
| 21 | The girl comes round here doing a survey , she came round one day and we were civil to her , and just answered questions , you know the way they stop you in the street . |
| 22 | They construct it in the sense of developing a conception of the real as being the refractory limit of their own actions . |
| 23 | You go to an avant-garde exhibition in Germany or in Italy , in France , in New York of course , and you find that a lot of people want to be informed about it and even , if they are not normally art people , they accept it in the sense of not mocking it . |
| 24 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 25 | I think when somebody teaches it they teach it in the premise that everybody they 're talking to is heterosexual . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They accost me in the street every time I walk every time I walk down for money , they 're |
| 28 | Another potential problem for patients is that they find themselves in the role of information-giver , and it is often information of a very personal nature . |
| 29 | They keep it in the safe . |
| 30 | That s why when a team gets knocked out of europe — invariably they do nothing in the league . |