Example sentences of "they [vb base] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 6 | Stab the heel and they drip the blood out onto a piece of blotting paper and it dries and they send it to the laboratory and they punch it out and they examine it and they test it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 9 | They show it on the Leeds United — The Glory Years video about three times and it always appears on the ten best goals of all time . |
| 10 | Whatever is necessary they have , they receive it from the community , and the magistrate takes care that no one receives more than he deserves . ’ |
| 11 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 12 | That was recommended to the employers , the employers said yes , that 's the action they would take , they put it to the trustees , the trustees agreed it and that was it . |
| 13 | but she had drapes and that to buy herself and , and they put it on the frame and she ca n't get into her drawers on bed , so they 're no good |
| 14 | they put it on the drive for |
| 15 | Well at the time they put it on the market we , we all three thought that it would be a good idea if , if both families sold up and moved into something smaller and perhaps moved near to each other |
| 16 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 17 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 18 | They put it under the fire . |
| 19 | We , we we had it in our hall , we , they put it into the building for nothing |
| 20 | The Philistines carry it from their camp to the town of Ashdod , and there they put it in the temple of their god Dagon . |
| 21 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 22 | How people use this and they put it in the dictionary . |
| 23 | I thought they said they put it in the back bit . |
| 24 | Sometimes they put it in the erm van . |
| 25 | and they put it in the sinks and baths all round the hall |
| 26 | Groups go up there and they pay the money for it and they put it in the middle while you 're waiting for the film , it 's all carpeted and you can watch all the monitors and they just sit down this huge tub of popcorn they had an op |
| 27 | they put it in the tea . |
| 28 | And they class it as the south . |
| 29 | They construct it in the sense of developing a conception of the real as being the refractory limit of their own actions . |
| 30 | You go to an avant-garde exhibition in Germany or in Italy , in France , in New York of course , and you find that a lot of people want to be informed about it and even , if they are not normally art people , they accept it in the sense of not mocking it . |