Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in the wrong , and they admitted it later in the day in one of those special P.G.A . |
| 2 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 3 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 4 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 5 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 6 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 7 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 8 | They surveyed it together in the dressing-table glass , heavy , thick stuff falling to her elbows , the colour of barley sugar . |
| 9 | The questions maybe that if they did what was reasonable , did they carry it out in a reasonable way . |
| 10 | Now they let them out in the summertime to different people . |
| 11 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 12 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 13 | If anyones around leeds at the time the two pubs I would suggest going to watch it are The Pack horse in town ( where they put it on in a private room upstairs for our convenience ) or the Fav up near the Uni where they have about 20 screens and away fans get regularly beat up ! ! ! ! |
| 14 | We 've sent letters to everybody , the Home Office , everywhere , and to say why have they put it up in the middle of an estate . |
| 15 | Oh they put it outside in the garden |
| 16 | They put it down in a strip of shade and stood to attention on either side with their rifles . |
| 17 | They impress me less in the beautiful central Andante in C minor : it needs expressive playing which should be poignant without overstepping the bounds of musical propriety that Mozart set himself , and here it sounds merely pleasing . |
| 18 | They ripped it off in the name of God . |
| 19 | This means that students are already familiar with the new language when they meet it later in the soap , and so will be able to relax and enjoy the content of the story . |
| 20 | ‘ As soon as some of our members received these letters , they threw them straight in the bin . |
| 21 | They threw us out in the end , they 're not very patient these people … ’ |
| 22 | They threw us out in the end , they 're not very patient these people … ’ |
| 23 | They are responsible for every aspect of the children 's care , i.e. they wake them up in the morning , take lying , sitting , standing , and walking groups , teach the National Curriculum lessons , toilet and bath the children and put them to bed . |
| 24 | They know me now in the London Road and that 's great . |
| 25 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 26 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 27 | They rang one up in the morning to say why are n't you here ? |
| 28 | They took him away in a car to a secluded house in the Swiss alps . |
| 29 | As I recall , they took him out in a refrigerator once , but the usual method with the hostages was to wrap them in blankets or carpet , strapped up with grey plumber 's tape , cover them in sheets , then wheel them out in the middle of the night and stuff them in a van or the boot of a car for the journey . |
| 30 | They took me there in the car . |