Example sentences of "[prep] they [to-vb] [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 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 9 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street . |
| 13 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 14 | A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away . |