Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt strongly , the girls should wear something they 'd normally buy in stores they visit . |
| 2 | However , the chemical inertness of the inert gases means that though they can be physically trapped in rocks they can not be chemically combined to form significant quantities of non-volatile materials . |
| 3 | But I do not think it was open to them to state a sum constituting the … deficit and then say in effect they were not sure if the sum was correct . |
| 4 | ‘ If we prevent children dying in infancy they will just grow up to have children of their own and population will increase even faster . ’ |
| 5 | When the bus got caught in traffic they dashed off it and ran through a nearby Russell and Bromley shoe store . |
| 6 | Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other 's horoscope in the newspapers , but without credulity : I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense , being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the ‘ rising sign ’ . |
| 7 | If they were living in England they could probably cope a lot better . |
| 8 | If this happens in Oxford they 'll be tarred with the same brush . |
| 9 | Well if they 've applied in time they can get a p postal vote . |
| 10 | If the bulk of the community are being criminally victimized in ways they do not understand or realize , surely that too is sufficient reason for prioritizing the study of corporate crime . |
| 11 | If CBS , NBC , ABC , the BBC — anybody — wanted to up-link video they 'd shot in Beirut they could go either to Damascus or Nicosia . |
| 12 | He says in Scotland they live in freezing conditions , the Cotswolds are luxury . |
| 13 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 14 | Well if they 're going in t if they 'd two weeks in February , this was written in January they 're probably there now . |
| 15 | As he waited , Hazel realized more fully than ever how dangerous was their position , without holes , wandering in country they did not know . |
| 16 | When the war brought an end to Joe 's Palace career he had played 276 Southern League games for us — the highest in the club 's history , but when they are seen in context they assume even greater value , for not only were the maximum possible appearances lower than in our present day ( only one of Johnson 's seasons with us included a 42 match programme ) but goalkeepers were subject to much more physical attention than is permitted today . |
| 17 | Seen in flight they are the most graceful of birds , with a mainly white plumage and long , streaming tail-feathers , but at close quarters they are quite aggressive , jabbing with their big , sharp , yellow beak at anything within reach and swearing at passers-by . |
| 18 | Erm b but there was no reason why we should sit in wait in case they might go up because they might have gone down further . |
| 19 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 20 | Full details and syllabus of the teacher training course have been sent to them , and the syllabus and assessment sheets for the Junior and Youth Bronze Awards , which apply throughout the British Isles , while the statistics that were requested apply to Scotland only — I felt the letter was needed in case they thought there were only 4 teachers in the whole Society ! |
| 21 | When they come to live and work in England they expect no language difficulties such as they know would await them in , say , Panama or Cuba . |
| 22 | Instead of lying in bed they are up and about and have freedom to make choices about their routine and daily life . |
| 23 | The two claimed in court they only intended to scare him into giving information about their property . |
| 24 | When your notes are growing in volume they are much too valuable to be carried around and perhaps lost . |
| 25 | When Theseus and the other Athenians arrived in Crete they were met by King Minos and his beautiful daughter Ariadne . |
| 26 | Widely used in gardens they impart a predictable flavour — like bottled sauce in a cheap restaurant . |
| 27 | Treatment was terminated and open access to the therapist by telephone offered in case they were unable to cope with future crises . |
| 28 | Assembling slaves required capital , or at least credit , to get started , and the slaves had to be trained and had to be watched in case they rebelled . |
| 29 | Based in Minnesota they have had little if any real distribution in the UK until Terry Shearer , who did so much at Spandex to get IBM 's 4250 accepted by the printing industry , took them on through his new company , PrePress Solutions . |
| 30 | Now based in Oxford they 're a truly international group , one English , one Swiss and one Norwegian , who met at a drama school in Paris . |