Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
| 2 | Unless I put them on the outside wood . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't kick out anyone who did n't perform , but when they came back I would make sure I put them in a safe place , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 5 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
| 6 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 7 | If there are criticisms then I accept them with the same magnanimity which Martin claims I do not possess . |
| 8 | but there were the , I get them with the four big slices and one slice see |
| 9 | In winter I fill them with a rich and succulent mincemeat mixture . |
| 10 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 11 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 12 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 13 | One by one I toss them into the slow current about eight feet from the roots . |
| 14 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 15 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't regard Jews as a class , ’ he snapped back at his questioner , ‘ I regard them as a privileged misfortune . ’ |
| 17 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 18 | If I run after the goals which I see everyone around me running after , I reduce them to no more than means to the well-being of feeling at one with the many . |
| 19 | ‘ Sorry , but I really , truly can not help you now , ’ I say , just before I dispatch them on a current running down towards St Malo . |
| 20 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
| 21 | Bureaucracies are often credited with a monopoly of expertise which place them in a superior position to lay politicians . |
| 22 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 23 | They were also subject to the English Parliament , which put them on a different footing from the King 's Scots or Irish subjects , who had Parliaments of their own that were not subordinate to the Westminster Parliament in the way that the Virginia assembly was . |
| 24 | But the second period began with a bang for the CMS side and a quick treble which put them in a commanding position . |
| 25 | I wish to suggest , also , that in describing physics , for example , as a particular kind of subject , students are also saying something about themselves , as people : the qualities which attract them to a particular subject are also , to some extent , qualities which are central to their own self-image . |
| 26 | a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and , |
| 27 | That 's that 's the way we do fractions that 's the way you do adding up fractions or taking away fractions you change them to the same . |
| 28 | The idea took off and now Dunkin' Donuts , who sell them in an amazing 31 flavours , say ‘ holes ’ are one of their most popular lines . |
| 29 | I mean where you buy the , the thing from you 'd think the seldom , the spares as you want them about every four months |
| 30 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |