Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they had n't the confidence they always seemed to have . |
| 2 | those shell fish things they 're always on about in they get out the rocks |
| 3 | So they know where the buildings were . |
| 4 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 5 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 6 | So they warm up the water sometimes , they either blow warm air through or at Stoke Bardolph they whip up the erm sewage with fans which beat air into the water , and the aerobic bacteria digest some of the harmful substances in the sewage . |
| 7 | At four o'clock they fed back the feelings of the workers to the convener , and at five minutes past four , Clasper took the giant plant out on strike , advising the Personnel and Plant Managers that they would n't return until the sacked shop steward had been re-instated . |
| 8 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 9 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 10 | Eventually Finn escapes , meets a runaway nigger , and together they escape down the Mississippi in a raft . |
| 11 | Soon they rolled back the carpet and had a dance . |
| 12 | Quickly they swept up the pieces and hid them away , wondering how they would replace the plate without being found out . |
| 13 | Animal rights activists claimed yesterday they carried out the arson attack that destroyed the Becher 's Brook jump on the Grand National course at Aintree , Liverpool . |
| 14 | The lacewing 's ears are at the base of each forewing , and cause the wings to fold whenever they pick up the bats ' echolocating sounds . |
| 15 | Carefully they cut round the base with a knife , to free any wax that was sealing it down , and eased the skep up off the base stone . |
| 16 | and they do some singing and everything and also they give out the bibles to those that are going up to school |
| 17 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 18 | Occasionally and inevitably they go over the top — but that 's in the nature of risk . |
| 19 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 20 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
| 21 | ‘ There was peach cup — that was very good ; and we played guessing games and I won three times and later on they rolled up the carpet — figuratively — we just went out on the terrace and turned on the gramophone and danced . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , well they well they go up the Legion and have a couple of pints , go to the bookie and put some horses on , go home and sit in front of the telly watching horses like . |
| 23 | At 11.15am they gave up the attempt , and as the tide was rising over the reef , decided to seek the help of the fishermen in the lagoon . |
| 24 | Frequently they had n't the money . |
| 25 | Picks up my navy coat , cor do n't they pick up the bits ? |
| 26 | Had n't they hurled back the Mongols from their frontiers and defeated the invasion forces of the Sung and Ming emperors ? |
| 27 | But sometimes they go over the top with tricks to get you to buy . |
| 28 | Sometimes they carried out the work at the Hankses ' cottage and occasionally at the farm , but so tired was Seb as a result of the long days he was working that twice he fell asleep while Carrie was writing . |
| 29 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 30 | And then they slide down the leaf and into the water . |