Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 2 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 3 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 4 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 5 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 6 | reported it and they send him out the flats . |
| 7 | they hooked you out the rapids twice did n't they ? |
| 8 | So I think they let her out the day after . |
| 9 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 10 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 11 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 12 | I just cracked up , and they put us down the block . |
| 13 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 14 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 15 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 16 | When they pulled her out the vase had n't a crack in it , and then the air-raid warden stumbled … ’ |
| 17 | They took her down the hospital . |