Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 3 | I had n't seen them carry her in from the car so it was a terrible shock for me . |
| 4 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 5 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 6 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 7 | ‘ I can get them to call it out over the loudspeaker . ’ |
| 8 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 9 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 10 | Never a glimpse of him since that good little lass saw them dragging him back into the wards . |
| 11 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 12 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 13 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 14 | It was heavy , and large , " The size of a small skip ! " she joked , and they got it out of the van and up the path and into the house . |
| 15 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 16 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 17 | Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet . |
| 18 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |
| 19 | By the time they made it back to the house she no longer knew whether she was as fine as she had insisted on telling him . |
| 20 | Do they want it back at the end of the tour , or something ? ’ |
| 21 | They read it out of the horoscope . |
| 22 | Next time we go inside the Globe , we see if they make it through to the Gold Run before a studio audience . |
| 23 | " They want you out of the way . " |
| 24 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 25 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 26 | They moved them out of the way but not out of the district , just to somewhere handy where they could easily pick them up . |
| 27 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time . |
| 30 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |