Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] it in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored . |
| 2 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 3 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |
| 4 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 5 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 6 | they 'd got it in right , cos she was showing my how it worked and that , all |
| 7 | Anyway they went in this big store Dickens and they 'd got it in there |
| 8 | They decided to price it in the middle of the range , at the ‘ black label ’ level , but they issued the actual record with a special Royal Purple design . |
| 9 | They try to hide it in a wardrobe , but it will not fit . |
| 10 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 11 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 12 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 13 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 14 | They 've done it in the Vale . |
| 15 | They 've put it in plaster at the moment . |
| 16 | They 've put it in the sun whatever it is . |
| 17 | And they do it , and they 've got it in stock , you know so |
| 18 | they 've got it in joint names |
| 19 | and they 've taken it in turns in that now |
| 20 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 21 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 22 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 23 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 24 | They had discovered it in the bed last night when one of them had found themselves lying on it , and it had been pitched out into the darkness . |
| 25 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 26 | And they had to park it in a a , an alley on the side . |
| 27 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 28 | In order to avoid the hitches of the last trip , they had carried it in its bag , but when unpacked it was discovered that one of the parts was damaged . |
| 29 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 30 | Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions . |