Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noises of chopping reached them as they lay there in the morning , feeling stiff and foul . |
| 2 | They lay together in the gathering darkness , holding each other , neither making any attempt to speak their hurt and their loss but both knowing it was there , buried deep within them . |
| 3 | Once formulated , they remain forever in the environment and build up in food chains and ultimately in our bodies . |
| 4 | They should let us get out of church and then get the people they want instead of grabbing the person they want right in the middle of the church and carrying them out . |
| 5 | Well , well I think I would , I would rath it I mean i it they 've got the responsibility to whistle blow now , you know , professional they 've got , er you know , they 're they these are professionals and they should , they should whistle blow and I mean Maxwell is a perfect example of how nobody , nobody blew the whistle and if you read through the writs , those lots of these people knew what were what was happening an and the whistle should have been blown and I see no reason why the why the pension regulator is going to get any different , different response and also I mean really these people are being in many cases given by th given information by their clients , you know , and I think it 's a very difficult situation to turn round to , to somebody like Mr Maxwell and say well look I 'm terribly sorry Mr Maxwell , we 're going to report you to the pensions regulator , you know and I think that , that er you will just find that that I just do n't feel that the pension regulator in , in that respect , I mean I , I think that I might like to if Peter suggested a pension fraud squad that , that had a open telephone line and the same sort of er powers as the Serious Fraud Office you know , so that if er anybody in a pension fund could , could ring a number and er and people absolutely descended th that , I mean they ge they say somewhere in the report that the pension regulator is going to have er powers and monies to do spot checks . |
| 6 | Price rises : Firms ca n't increase their prices unless they say so in the catalogue or advertisement . |
| 7 | They meet again in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York on August 18 . |
| 8 | These they waggle boldly in the air . |
| 9 | They participate actively in the learning process and receive direct feedback as to the progress they are making . |
| 10 | If they respectfully withdraw from involvement in village affairs they find themselves branded as ‘ stand-offish ’ or ‘ jumped-up ’ ; if they participate fully in the life of the village they are accused of ‘ taking over ’ and of telling the local inhabitants how to run their own community . |
| 11 | And er , so they sa put an announcement in the paper to say do n't keep sending these nails to us cos they go straight in the bin , we 've got no use for them ! |
| 12 | Or at tea , when they come in in the morning or when they go home in the evening . |
| 13 | France have got a state police , and I 've forgotten what they 're called , C R S , they are what 's known as the C R S and they are ri riot police and they go anywhere in the country . |
| 14 | they point woodenly in the direction of hope . |
| 15 | Part of the presenter 's role is to watch for good photo opportunities as they arise spontaneously in the course of events . |
| 16 | The final point , which is related to the previous point , is that it is a mystery to some people why , despite the fact they do well in the squad , they still do n't get selected . |
| 17 | I suppose not everyone in this life is able to marry the person they love most in the world . ’ |
| 18 | They exist solely in the mind of the man who invented them . |
| 19 | Be sure to repeat the basic lessons as appropriate , so that they stick firmly in the memory . |
| 20 | Those shining metals are as the veritable trail of the serpent ; they follow inevitably in the wake of civilisations , and give rise to crowded and smoky manufacturing towns , while spreading abroad an unrestful desire for travel with all its concomitant worries and brain wear . |
| 21 | Many mothers continue to work part-time even when their children start school , so they can be there when they come home in the afternoon and so holiday childcare arrangements are a little easier . |
| 22 | Temperature requirements are not too critical either , so long as they fall somewhere in the range of 20–28°C . |
| 23 | A man they have here in the tank |
| 24 | Dickens does this by his attention to even the smallest detail of the characters ' appearance , which includes their faces , clothes and especially any odd phrases or physical blemishes they have as in the case of Pumblechook and his , ‘ I have brought you , Mum , ’ and in Melly 's and Herbert 's cases , that of her strong wrists and his pale young complexion . |
| 25 | Once women can control unexpected births through contraception they spend longer in the labour force and invest more in education and qualifications which in turn increases their earning potential and makes the economic incentives against starting a family more marked . |
| 26 | These ‘ soft companies ’ are easy to start because they need little in the way of capital or staff , and they are less prone to failure than companies oriented toward ‘ hard ’ products . |
| 27 | They occur mostly in the form of single or multiple loops , although some are pointlike . |
| 28 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |