Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 2 | Next time we go inside the Globe , we see if they make it through to the Gold Run before a studio audience . |
| 3 | " They want you out of the way . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 8 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
| 9 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 10 | Now they let them out in the summertime to different people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The worse thing is when it gets in your eye when they put it on at the hairdressers after ugh |
| 13 | So can we just develop that one says that in our own department they put it up on the wall so people complete it themselves . |
| 14 | now it 's thirty five or thirty six I mean they put it up for the er crisis |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | and among they put it down as the parents er ca n't control her . |
| 17 | but they put it in to the meter in |
| 18 | We could still be looking for it when they blow us out of the water . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 21 | The Inland Revenue Budget Press Release of 16 March 1993 dealing with the taxation of dividends , paras 24 – 29 , reads thus : 24 Where trustees of trusts in which a beneficiary has an interest in possession receive income , they pass it on to the beneficiary with a credit at the basic rate . |
| 22 | they roll it out on the dance floor upstairs |
| 23 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 24 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 25 | I 've just rung and you get the usual b-shit at first then they patch you through to the club-call line in England . |
| 26 | As they wheel her out of the theatre , she comes to and murmurs groggily , ‘ Thank you so much for all your help . ’ |
| 27 | I bet they love her down at the outreach centre . |
| 28 | They catch any gay guy with AZT , they throw him in the federal penitentiary like Jimmy fucking Cagney , and then they throw us out of the country . |
| 29 | When they do use bricks here , they paint them brick red so you will know they are bricks , then they stick them on to the front outside walls as an ornamental display . |
| 30 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |