Example sentences of "they [vb base] [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 | 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 honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 6 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 9 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 10 | They put me in the prison hospital . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
| 13 | And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know . |
| 14 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 18 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 19 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 20 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 21 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 22 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 23 | They wheel you over and they put you in the bath and they start stripping off your bandages which is absolute agony . |
| 24 | The Philistines carry it from their camp to the town of Ashdod , and there they put it in the temple of their god Dagon . |
| 25 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 26 | How people use this and they put it in the dictionary . |
| 27 | I thought they said they put it in the back bit . |
| 28 | Sometimes they put it in the erm van . |
| 29 | and they put it in the sinks and baths all round the hall |
| 30 | Groups go up there and they pay the money for it and they put it in the middle while you 're waiting for the film , it 's all carpeted and you can watch all the monitors and they just sit down this huge tub of popcorn they had an op |