Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 2 | What gives you this impression ? 6 The teacher set them to do something in a short time . |
| 3 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 4 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 5 | It would be professionally improper for them to interest themselves in the social or leisure activities of their pupils ; and it would be unsuitable to their professionalism if they were involved in purely supervisory or ancillary duties , which are carried out , where necessary , by unqualified assistants . |
| 6 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 7 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Do they affect you in the same way ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 13 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 14 | In Algeria , they found themselves in a similar situation , fighting a war against the regular Algerian Army and the guerrillas of the Front Libération Nationale . |
| 15 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 16 | They found themselves in a long dark gallery above a massive room . |
| 17 | They found themselves in a cavernous room lined with scarred wooden workbenches and rows of metal hooks hanging from the ceiling . |
| 18 | As they drove towards their refuge , they found themselves in a large station yard , now overgrown with weeds and bramble bushes and obviously derelict . |
| 19 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 20 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 21 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
| 22 | Emerging at the station in the City ( with fifteen minutes in hand , Helen noted to her relief ) they found themselves in an alien landscape . |
| 23 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 24 | No , they send it in a bloody big one . |
| 25 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 28 | They told him in no uncertain terms that he could not take a holiday whenever he felt like it . |
| 29 | they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm |
| 30 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |