Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent — and so they fancied her all the more . |
| 2 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 7 | I just cracked up , and they put us down the block . |
| 8 | reported it and they send him out the flats . |
| 9 | And when they asked her why the yellow ribbon , |
| 10 | When they pulled her out the vase had n't a crack in it , and then the air-raid warden stumbled … ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As they tugged it straight the wind bellied it out , taut as a sail . |