Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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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 | 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 | 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 . |
19 | I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time . |
20 | 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 |
21 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
22 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
25 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
26 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
27 | Now they let them out in the summertime to different people . |
28 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
29 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
30 | ‘ So , is that how you earned your living , once they drove you out of the dorf ? |