Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] they in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took your violets home with me and have them in a vase in my room , and Mrs Gracie the housekeeper ( who owns the pug ) takes them out at night as she says they poison the air when one is asleep . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 3 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 4 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
| 5 | He blanched and I would chill and bag them and put them in the freezer . |
| 6 | He even took them and put them in the litter-bin . |
| 7 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 8 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 9 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 10 | When they reached the kitchen Lucy collected the cups and saucers while Jean rinsed the crumbs off them and stacked them in the dishwasher . |
| 11 | Peel , halve and core them and place them in a saucepan … cover with the wine and a broken cinnamon stick and heat until barely simmering … wash the monkfish and pat dry with kitchen paper … just as the liquid begins to caramelise , add the lemon juice and stir vigorously … reduced to a quarter of its original volume … add the cubes one at a time … thread the piece of monkfish … reserving the liquid … baste the fruit continuously … intersperse with pears … hand the sauce separately … |
| 12 | The agonies of reading one 's most intimate feelings and thoughts aloud to a roomful of strangers , and then being expected to talk about them and explain them in an acceptably relaxed and humorous manner were more than I could bear . |
| 13 | Pull out the magazine schemes that appeal most to you and stick them in a file ; mark the pages you like in books . |
| 14 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 15 | Reaching out , he took two of the scented sticks from the porcelain jar in front of him and held them in the thread of laser light until they lit . |
| 16 | Pinched some of my old Dad 's plum brandy and soaked raisins in it and left 'em in the clearing . |
| 17 | she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground ! |
| 18 | For its size it was heavy , and she nearly dropped it , Lucenzo 's hands quickly sweeping beneath hers and supporting them in a lightning reflex . |