Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 2 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 3 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 4 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 5 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 6 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 7 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 8 | They stopped it in the end did n't they ? |
| 9 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 10 | They found her in the lavender field With her flowers as her final shield . |
| 11 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 12 | Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) . |
| 13 | They found you in the snow and they carried you to the nearest shelter . |
| 14 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 15 | They buried him in the churchyard here . |
| 16 | He alienated those he feared were becoming too important to him , and they rejected him in the manner to which he had become accustomed . |
| 17 | Knock out a rabbit at fifty paces , they told him in the shop . |
| 18 | Dinner was exquisite , even though they ate it in the somewhat strained silence of two people who had discovered they had absolutely nothing to say to each other . |
| 19 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 20 | He could still feel eyes on him , they were like fingers , they poked him in the ribs , the shoulderblades , the neck , it was hard not looking round . |
| 21 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They paid it in the day before . |
| 23 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 24 | But when when they showed you in the house there was just like old cardboard boxes just sort of thrown in the corner and and just sort of paper carrier bags and polythene bags just sort of slung there . |
| 25 | Of course the police did n't know what it was : they threw it in the pig-bin . |
| 26 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 27 | On one occasion , they locked her in the car when they went to a call and wound up the window to prevent her overhearing . |
| 28 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 29 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 30 | ‘ That 's one thing they taught you in the army , ’ said the Colonel , with more than a touch of complacency . |