Example sentences of "they [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 2 | She had them hidden in a box , in the store room . |
| 3 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 4 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 5 | ‘ He brings considerable outside experience and proven ability in defining practical business strategies and putting them to work in a market environment , ’ Mr Hugh Smith said . |
| 6 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 7 | Solowka is refreshingly honest , but the band 's efforts were legitimate enough to prompt the British Ukrainian Association to ask them to appear in a video newsletter and the set definitely broadened the band 's appeal . |
| 8 | ‘ She gets them made in a factory in Hong Kong . |
| 9 | PROMOTER Frank Warren yesterday warned rivals Colin McMillan and Paul Hodkinson that greed could prevent them meeting in a world title clash . |
| 10 | Closer to home , in their statement of educational principles , for example , a group of teachers from Wigan included the following : ‘ Education has the responsibility of operating within a democratic system ; of respecting and nurturing democratic principles ; of being open to change by democratic process ; and , perhaps , most importantly , of encouraging within the young those qualities and skills which enable them to participate in a democracy and ultimately to develop or change it ’ ( Department of Education and Science , 1983 , p. 27 ) . |
| 11 | This is the challenge facing community educators : a challenge which requires them to engage in a process of reflection on their action : to clarify their views of the crisis facing the working class : to face up to certain contradictions in their practice : to sharpen their sense of social commitment . |
| 12 | The average recreational sailor owns around three sails , allowing them to sail in a wind band of between force one and five . |
| 13 | But his father wants them buried in a family plot in Santa Inez . |
| 14 | One of them landed in a field next to Bruce Arkell 's house , and he 's still finding pieces of wreckage . |
| 15 | Later they had them set in a row near the climbing frame . |
| 16 | Even before one of them collapsed in a gas explosion at Ronan Point in London , the tower block became a focus of special hatred . |
| 17 | The majority of men are accustomed to some particular style of living , and they generally refrain from marriage , if the increased expenses of married life would compel them to live in a manner which would not give them what has been aptly termed their historical standard of comfort . |
| 18 | In Adrienne Bennett 's classroom pupils work on mathematical activities which enable them to respond in a variety of ways and at a range of levels . |
| 19 | He sometimes had to disappear to the lavatory several times when they met in a pub or café . |
| 20 | On Friday they met in a mosque with the men from Zliten , demanded 6000 dinars ( £11,800 at the then official exchange rate , £6500 at the going rate in the free market ) , and received assurances of payment . |
| 21 | They met in a soup kitchen in Hull , decided that cutting a record together would be fun , and before long had Paul Weller offering to play guitar for them . |
| 22 | Not many miles away , two estates meet , between Wootton and Steeple Barton , precisely where they met in a charter dated 958 , and possibly for some considerable time before that . |
| 23 | And anytime they got in a fix , they called on the children to lift paper masks ( given out free and serving as a programme on the reverse ) to their faces and give a special Care Bear Stare at the stage to overcome Coldheart 's evil intent . |
| 24 | Surely you do n't actually believe all that stuff in the papers about how it was so much better in the old days , but then they got in a bunch of yuppies and ruined it all by going down-market and yoof-crazed , do you ? |
| 25 | They lived in a village called Deya , on the Spanish island of Majorca . |
| 26 | The physical setting of a parish influenced not only the ways in which a family might farm their land or work at a particular craft but also such basic matters as whether they lived in a village , a hamlet or an isolated farmstead , whether or not they had valuable rights of common to go with their farms or cottages , and sometimes the type of tenure by which they held their land . |
| 27 | They lived in a basement flat in South London then , he , his wife , and the two little girls . |
| 28 | Migrating from pasture to pasture with their herds of horses , cattle and other animals , they lived in a type of portable home ( ger ) consisting of a circular framework covered with felt ( which the Russians incorrectly called yuna ) . |
| 29 | They lived in a council house in Wembley , which was a little off-putting . |
| 30 | They lived in a house in the Terrace , and eventually my father was sent to Ampleforth in Yorkshire , a Benedictine monastery which also ran a boarding school . |