Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | As he stepped out , they flung themselves out of his reach , all at once , silently , before resuming their sawing song . |
| 4 | Towards the end , and no doubt full of beef and beer , they got him on to his feet ; but despite encouraging shouts he was speechless . |
| 5 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 6 | I hope that they got something out of it . |
| 7 | ‘ Wonder how the hell they got anything up from there . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think they got anything out of her ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | And they got it down to , not the bricks but the sand that the bricks was made of because |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I wear them every Sunday because they bring him back to me . |
| 13 | And they bring them up to me |
| 14 | they bring them out at their own table shows and , and it 's |
| 15 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 16 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 17 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 18 | Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet . |
| 19 | They got the jackets off , they did the job , they laid it out for us . |
| 20 | So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ? |
| 21 | Yeah , the people , what did they make them out of ? |
| 22 | ‘ They made me out to be a hooligan , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 23 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 27 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 28 | When they asked her down for meals she did n't come . |
| 29 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 30 | Impressed , they passed him on to an agency with a good reputation for seeing young people . |