Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] they [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 2 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 3 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 4 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
| 5 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 6 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 7 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
| 8 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 9 | He tried to wipe them away on the sleeve of the plaid shirt , but it was no good . |
| 10 | But they have gone through an experience of doubt which has purged them forever of the desire to doubt without finding an answer . |
| 11 | Staff members tried to keep them away from the soft-hearted President , consigning them to the Vice-president not because Bush was more callous , North explained , but because it was Reagan who had to make the policy decisions . |
| 12 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 13 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 14 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 15 | Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores . |
| 16 | The florist came up earlier but she was asleep , and he did n't even come into the room , just put his head round the door and left her some flowers ; the night nurse has put them out in the corridor . |
| 17 | The copycat kings of the world will apply the formula which has benefitted them immensely in the everyday world of trade and commerce to rugby . |
| 18 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 19 | If you want to take them out of the book |
| 20 | Denying armchair dog punters instant access to the results is claimed to steer them back to the tracks whose attendances have dipped from 30million to under 4million . |
| 21 | Elijah has to drag them back from the worship of the heathen fertility gods introduced by Jezebel . |
| 22 | I got mad , because they were so greedy , and tried to shove them away from the chair . |
| 23 | In this case , the Bank buys bills but agrees to sell them back to the market at an agreed price some time in the future . |
| 24 | Bromley was quoted by The Listener in August as saying of Sky : ‘ We intend to shoot them out of the sky . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 26 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 27 | As their final experience before the end of their PGCE year , we hope to inform them fully about the role languages play in industry and even , perhaps , during their Week in industry attachment , give them some idea of how language learning relates to their immediate environment . |
| 28 | As the young owls had fledged , he said that we might expect to find them anywhere in the area , and that the best idea was for us to fan out and scan the branches . |
| 29 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 30 | The forest was noisy with night sounds that only seemed to lock them closer into the area of light thrown by the fire . |