Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | And he stopped me and said : ‘ Son , I saw ye practising , and I 've always found with a player of your capabilities it is best to tell them to hit it straight at the pin ! ’ |
| 3 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 4 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 5 | we 'll have to let them catch you right at the right , where the music tells you too , dum , oh |
| 6 | I had n't seen them carry her in from the car so it was a terrible shock for me . |
| 7 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 8 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 9 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
| 10 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 11 | Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards . |
| 12 | ‘ I can get them to call it out over the loudspeaker . ’ |
| 13 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 14 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 15 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 16 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 17 | Never a glimpse of him since that good little lass saw them dragging him back into the wards . |
| 18 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |
| 19 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 20 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 21 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 22 | It was heavy , and large , " The size of a small skip ! " she joked , and they got it out of the van and up the path and into the house . |
| 23 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 24 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 25 | ‘ They sell it directly to the shops ! ’ |
| 26 | They were in the wrong , and they admitted it later in the day in one of those special P.G.A . |
| 27 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 28 | Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet . |
| 29 | So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ? |
| 30 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |