Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 4 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 5 | I had n't seen them carry her in from the car so it was a terrible shock for me . |
| 6 | And McCall , the driving force in Rangers ' 2–1 European Cup win at Elland Road , said : ‘ Leeds have great character and ability and I hope they go on to do well this season , but it will be difficult for them to pick themselves up from this . |
| 7 | draw round them just put them put them out like that and when you 've put them out to make a a pattern you can say if you just work with twelve first . |
| 8 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 9 | I think we 'll be able to get them to put them in for us . |
| 10 | We want them to put something back into the community that has helped them grow . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't think it 's good for them moving them about from school to school do you ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many of them pass it on to their wives ; 1% of the women who came for pre-natal tests at the hospital were HIV-positive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You 've got to allow them to give their around to where you are with how you open the call . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think there have been any new developments since yesterday morning , but I 'll run through them to keep you up to date . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | so I 'll get them to send it off to Linda |
| 20 | Do you let them try them on at all ? |
| 21 | ‘ I can get them to call it out over the loudspeaker . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Then ask them to repeat it back to you just as you told it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The sight that met them brought everything back with a rush . |
| 27 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 28 | Got them wetting themselves up on the clouds , I daresay … |
| 29 | Never a glimpse of him since that good little lass saw them dragging him back into the wards . |
| 30 | Bit my lip — did n't want them dragging me back in there for a patient . |