Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll bring them little divils back to the house for ye , mam . |
| 2 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 3 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 4 | After loud good nights and thanks to Squeaky , the four of them finally staggered out into the cool air of late evening . |
| 5 | Megadeth are a band with thousands of followers , some of them just starting out on the guitar . |
| 6 | ‘ Lovely bit of weather , ’ said her father , and her mother remarked that she always thought it so silly of them not to go out in the country more when they lived so near to it . |
| 7 | From a family of fish merchants , he has served on Billingsgate committees and all but despairs of ‘ them ever getting on with the real business of selling fish ’ . |
| 8 | I would like them both to go back from the month of June . |
| 9 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 10 | and the Monday , and they eventually turned up on the Tuesday . |
| 11 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 12 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 13 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 14 | The male does not let them drop far — he catches them as they literally shoot out of the female . |
| 15 | As soon as they sight a predator approaching , they swiftly dart round to the far side of a tree-trunk before performing the rigid ‘ statue ’ response . |
| 16 | Yes , is n't , those are for my mother 's day bouquets and I just stick them in and they just come out in the vase . |
| 17 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 18 | They just got on with the job . |
| 19 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |
| 20 | Sometimes it is better to let the children have free time when they just run around in the garden or hall . |
| 21 | Well they just struggle on in the Wintertime |
| 22 | Somebody they just fetched out of the street ? |
| 23 | They just slop out over the walls , and there is litter everywhere — old refuse , bottles and cans , you name it . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah but they just comes up to the door and says to her we 're going away now . |
| 25 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |
| 26 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 27 | Clouthier 's policies were frequently ill-defined but they nevertheless brought back into the political debate conservative ideas that had been scorned since the 1917 Mexican revolution . |
| 28 | These then were Law 's senior colleagues in the work of opposition and would have presumably occupied the senior posts in a Law government ; they scarcely add up to the image of a party of ruthless businessmen and , if other probable ministers are added to the list — Lords Derby , Curzon , Salisbury and Crawford , together with Finlay and Cave , both lawyers — then it seems even less so . |
| 29 | They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater . |
| 30 | When they finally sat down to the meal it was Moran himself who brought McQuaid back into the day . |