Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 2 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 3 | And thirdly , his world contained a great number of Christian knights , professional warriors , lords of unrule : if he could but find a holy cause , a just war , God 's war , for them to engage in outside the frontiers of Europe , what might they not achieve , what peace might not come to Christendom ? |
| 4 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 5 | But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute . |
| 6 | He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber . |
| 7 | The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings . |
| 8 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 9 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 10 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 11 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 12 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 13 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 14 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 15 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 16 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 17 | Even when I eavesdrop I hear nothing but sex , thought Pascoe watching the four of them disappear out of the bar . |
| 18 | For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef . |
| 19 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 20 | Well anyway , it reaches night and the three of them go down into the attic . |
| 21 | And the Relief Committee and the Board of Works inspector upstairs — four of them go out on the balcony , and there was a silence would have lifted off your hat . |
| 22 | They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help . |
| 23 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 24 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 25 | There was no one at the pumping station in the Old Town , so the two of them headed back through the dockside streets to find out what was happening . |
| 26 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |
| 27 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
| 28 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 29 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 30 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |