Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet . |
| 10 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They read it out of the horoscope . |
| 13 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They moved them out of the way but not out of the district , just to somewhere handy where they could easily pick them up . |
| 16 | You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 21 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 22 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 23 | ‘ So , is that how you earned your living , once they drove you out of the dorf ? |
| 24 | They ripped it off in the name of God . |
| 25 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 26 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 27 | and they fetched somebody out of the street , this was , this was in er Worcester this was |
| 28 | ‘ They opened it up during the war but the seams were too deep . |
| 29 | She collapsed , they turned her out of the house , and literally left her to die on the pavement outside . |
| 30 | And they turned her out of the house . |