Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 2 | They skimmed you in an ante-room |
| 3 | And when they lay me in my wedding dress on that table , I 'll have my revenge on him ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 6 | They got them in Woolworths . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They got me in 1979 when Eamonn Andrews hosted the show . |
| 9 | Cos whoever it was they got me in trouble . |
| 10 | we , we have n't got one now , they got one in Germany , they got one in France I in |
| 11 | we , we have n't got one now , they got one in Germany , they got one in France I in |
| 12 | They got themselves in a mess by losing millions on loans to foreign countries and dubious borrowers at home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 16 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 17 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 18 | You buy cigarettes with that — they sell anything in ones . |
| 19 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 20 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 21 | But , ca n't they treat it in this country ? |
| 22 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 23 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 24 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |
| 25 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 26 | Er it 's er it 's a ex W D lens , after wartime they sold these things they sold them in catalogues and I sent of for this one , and it 's about a stone and a half in weight . |
| 27 | THE Roux brothers ' former restaurant in Old Bailey , renamed Le Sous Sol after they sold it in 1989 , is in administrative receivership . |
| 28 | In 1985 , when Japanese chip makers last started slashing prices , America 's government insisted that they raise them in order to protect the ( virtually non-existent ) American DRAM industry . |
| 29 | Our universities can not get hold of our great industrial centres in any permanent way unless they raise them In self-respect and dignity by giving them an intellectual understanding of their vocatIons … |
| 30 | 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 . |