Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
| 2 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 3 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 4 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 5 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 6 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
| 7 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 8 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 9 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 10 | Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar . |
| 11 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 12 | Nevertheless there is little doubt that in the cases of Frederick and Joseph at least a feeling that an enlightened ruler ought to be above merely personal and family considerations , that it was his duty to sacrifice them ruthlessly on the altar of the State , was a factor in their behaviour to their own blood relations . |
| 13 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 14 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 15 | I bang on them , drag them all over the place , throw them around ! ’ |
| 16 | And the boyfriend -when the mother kicks them out of the home — the boyfriend says , " Uh-oh , she 's out on the street now , and pregnant . " |
| 17 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 18 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 19 | Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table . |
| 20 | Very slowly she took the headphones off and laid them carefully on the table , her eyes never leaving Luke 's for a moment . |
| 21 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 22 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 23 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And you get twenty back do n't you , when you sell them back to the bank or whoever ? |
| 26 | The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines . |
| 27 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 28 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 29 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 30 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |