Example sentences of "they [conj] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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1 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
2 | The Conclusions are circulated very promptly after Cabinet , and up to that time , no minister , certainly not the prime minister , asks to see them or conditions them in any way . ’ |
3 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
4 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
5 | Ruth would retire behind her screen to read them and stored them in one of her drawers . |
6 | Acknowledge encouragement and assistance from them and support them in return . |
7 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
8 | We expect the people to be like them and presuppose it in dealing with the people themselves . |
9 | He blanched and I would chill and bag them and put them in the freezer . |
10 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
13 | He even took them and put them in the litter-bin . |
14 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | When he noticed that my clothes were wet he took them and hung them in front of a large iron fire . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | When they reached the kitchen Lucy collected the cups and saucers while Jean rinsed the crumbs off them and stacked them in the dishwasher . |
20 | Well obviously they would look after them and keep them in good order , and what have you , so that there was no hold up with them trying to make a wage or whatever . |
21 | I composed a note for them and left it in the hall beside the phone . |
22 | We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country . |
23 | 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 … |
24 | Mrs Bennet and Jinny took charge of the two women and two small girls , making tea for them and wrapping them in blankets . |
25 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
26 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
27 | Sometimes we got into a shoal of them and pulled them in as fast as we could handle the lines ; sometimes we failed to find any . |
28 | Oh you 'll dro If you write to i If you write to them and drop it in that 's fine then . |
29 | Besides , the Jews inspected the stars by night , turned their eyes towards them and invoked them in their prayers . |
30 | 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 . |