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

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1 I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up .
2 The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs .
3 Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this
4 There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’
5 The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground .
6 Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season
7 ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’
8 Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) .
9 Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) .
10 He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be .
11 Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar .
12 so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty
13 Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease .
14 a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late .
15 The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ .
16 And the boyfriend -when the mother kicks them out of the home — the boyfriend says , " Uh-oh , she 's out on the street now , and pregnant . "
17 She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible .
18 She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry .
19 One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ .
20 He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it .
21 The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head .
22 She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them .
23 And you get twenty back do n't you , when you sell them back to the bank or whoever ?
24 So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’
25 The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines .
26 The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court .
27 They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon .
28 She then rejoined the others outside , and the Doctor led them back to the TARDIS .
29 They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers .
30 Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building .
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