Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 2 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 5 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 6 | The questions maybe that if they did what was reasonable , did they carry it out in a reasonable way . |
| 7 | Now they let them out in the summertime to different people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! ! ! ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They put it down in a strip of shade and stood to attention on either side with their rifles . |
| 12 | They ripped it off in the name of God . |
| 13 | They threw us out in the end , they 're not very patient these people … ’ |
| 14 | They threw us out in the end , they 're not very patient these people … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 17 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 20 | They wheeled us on in the background like a couple of fossils . |
| 21 | MORE than 1,000 runners disturbed the lazy calm of a country Sunday morning as they battled it out in the 11th Crosby 10k event . |
| 22 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But they carried us up in the air ! |
| 24 | That 's how they carried it out in the old days , in every quarry . |
| 25 | I said I 'll get you in two weeks , wallop wallop It 's alright , to do it , they have 'em back in a month . |
| 26 | On the day I got out they picked us up in a taxi at the prison and then we went to the hospital to pick him up . |