Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 2 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 3 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 4 | Now they let them out in the summertime to different people . |
| 5 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 6 | We 've sent letters to everybody , the Home Office , everywhere , and to say why have they put it up in the middle of an estate . |
| 7 | They ripped it off in the name of God . |
| 8 | They threw us out in the end , they 're not very patient these people … ’ |
| 9 | They threw us out in the end , they 're not very patient these people … ’ |
| 10 | They are responsible for every aspect of the children 's care , i.e. they wake them up in the morning , take lying , sitting , standing , and walking groups , teach the National Curriculum lessons , toilet and bath the children and put them to bed . |
| 11 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 12 | They rang one up in the morning to say why are n't you here ? |
| 13 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 14 | They wheeled us on in the background like a couple of fossils . |
| 15 | MORE than 1,000 runners disturbed the lazy calm of a country Sunday morning as they battled it out in the 11th Crosby 10k event . |
| 16 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But they carried us up in the air ! |
| 18 | That 's how they carried it out in the old days , in every quarry . |
| 19 | For manufactured goods , Malaysia has relied heavily on attracting foreigners to its Export processing Zones ( see below ) and letting them fight it out in the exports markets with the minimum of intervention . |