Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] in [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | They grab him in a bearhug from behind . |
| 6 | They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 7 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 8 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 9 | No , they send it in a bloody big one . |
| 10 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 13 | she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley |
| 14 | they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm |
| 15 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 16 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 17 | So they put me in a detention centre for six months . |
| 18 | Then they put me in a room and asked me questions . |
| 19 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 20 | They put me in the prison hospital . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
| 23 | And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know . |
| 24 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 25 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 26 | In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan . |
| 27 | as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one |
| 28 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 29 | And if they died , we us I helping my moni my Mother many at time , to wash them down , before they put them in the coffins . |
| 30 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |