Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 2 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 3 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 4 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 5 | Apart from cleaning each pane , they take photographs of the windows which help them paint in missing images , in keeping with the overall style . |
| 6 | As we have seen , horses have basic physiological and psychological needs which must be met for them to remain in good health both physically and emotionally . |
| 7 | They therefore consulted their solicitor to see if it was necessary for them to remain in this country for the purpose of attending the hearing in August . |
| 8 | " Why do we let them stay in that warren ? " cried Silver . |
| 9 | When Jancey persuaded them to sit in next door , none of them were too sure how heavy these guys would turn out to be . |
| 10 | You 've raised me to sit in high places |
| 11 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 12 | The oldest tavern is the Vlissinghe , of which mention was first made in 1552 , but there are hundreds of little bars and cafes , many of them housed in olde-worlde buildings that have the Americans squealing with delight . |
| 13 | At the beginning of the twentieth century Freud wrote about sexuality in children , which was , at that time , an original contribution to the understanding of human beings and the problems many of them developed in later adult life . |
| 14 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 15 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 16 | By the next day , there were three angels keeping vigil by her bed , one of them clad in black applying cold cloths to her brow . |
| 17 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 18 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 19 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 20 | I , personally , was struck by Basil 's gift , when he taught children and teachers , for helping them to observe in such a way that detail was noticed and imagination was touched . |
| 21 | The men said their employer was thinking twice about sending them to work in nationalist areas . |
| 22 | One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams . |
| 23 | It is usual for them to come in two equal length pieces to fit a central ferrule . |
| 24 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 25 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 26 | ‘ We try to compensate for missed experiences and help them behave in age-appropriate ways . |
| 27 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 28 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 29 | Both of them smashed in one jump |
| 30 | Erm , try it , and let me know in six months . |