Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] they [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
| 2 | I filed them neatly in the waste basket and helped myself to a cigarette . |
| 3 | Realising that the canal is scheduled as an Ancient Monument , I contacted them well before the event and received an application form for consent . |
| 4 | One Scottish observer noted that " both parties are angry to a higher degree than ever I saw them even in the Exclusion time " . |
| 5 | They are staying in a hotel in Durham and I saw them yesterday in the bar . |
| 6 | I bought them just for the bag though . |
| 7 | I did not dare risk Pollock and young Duncan Pugh and so I left them firmly on the bench . |
| 8 | It was the little amulet which told them most about the girl . |
| 9 | There was even a smudgy photograph , apparently taken at a party , which showed them together over the canapes . |
| 10 | The single-deckers became known appropriately as railcoaches , a name which placed them firmly to the forefront of modern transport . |
| 11 | I me , well you can never find anything if you got them all over the place ! |
| 12 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 13 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 14 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 15 | The six people at a corner table were well known to the proprietor , who saw them regularly in the winter months . |
| 16 | It was like toys : when you brought them home from the shop and got them out of the box they were never quite the same . |
| 17 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 18 | She slipped them rapidly into the hot mouth where they were instantly consumed in a shower of Sparks . |
| 19 | We toasted them far into the night . |
| 20 | We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north . |
| 21 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 22 | ‘ As soon as some of our members received these letters , they threw them straight in the bin . |
| 23 | Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table . |
| 24 | He shook them firmly by the hand — a comforting , hearty grasp that cheered Dexter , who had a pet dislike of cold hands proffered nervously like fragile porcelain . |
| 25 | He followed them sadly to the door . |
| 26 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 27 | He arranged them neatly in the executive case open by his side , then concealed the banknotes with several layers of insurance magazines and four paperbacks . |
| 28 | He placed them firmly on the man 's chest and pressed the buttons . |
| 29 | He placed them carefully on the table in the centre of the room . |
| 30 | There surely are some people in A&R who would n't recognise talent if it hit them squarely between the eyes and others inebriated on their own power . |