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Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord .
2	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
3	‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room .
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you .
7	Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet .
8	But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection .
9	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 .
10	Do they want it back at the end of the tour , or something ? ’
11	They read it out of the horoscope .
12	Next time we go inside the Globe , we see if they make it through to the Gold Run before a studio audience .
13	" They want you out of the way . "
14	But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border .
15	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 .
16	They moved them out of the way but not out of the district , just to somewhere handy where they could easily pick them up .
17	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 .
18	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 .
19	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 .
20	I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time .
21	Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital .
22	They press themselves up against the adventurers .
23	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
24	They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea .
25	Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement .
26	Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day .
27	They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him .
28	‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it .
29	I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office .
30	Now they let them out in the summertime to different people .