Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 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 sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology . |
| 9 | Do they affect you in the same way ? |
| 10 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 11 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 12 | They stopped it in the end did n't they ? |
| 13 | They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 14 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 15 | So How did they catch him in the dog 's home that 's what I was thinking . |
| 16 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 17 | They found her in the lavender field With her flowers as her final shield . |
| 18 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | They found you in the snow and they carried you to the nearest shelter . |
| 21 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 22 | And then , when you find they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 23 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 24 | They buried him in the churchyard here . |
| 25 | He alienated those he feared were becoming too important to him , and they rejected him in the manner to which he had become accustomed . |
| 26 | Why could n't they do it in the summer when it 's warm ? |
| 27 | Knock out a rabbit at fifty paces , they told him in the shop . |
| 28 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 29 | They put me in the prison hospital . |
| 30 | Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that . |