Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded . |
| 2 | procedure for taking goods out of stock and transferring them to the shop floor |
| 3 | It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry . |
| 4 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
| 5 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 6 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 7 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 8 | To undertake strategic research , which takes the new ideas coming out of basic research and develops them to the point where the possibility of commercial application can be identified . |
| 9 | The barbed needles pick up tiny threads and pump them through the fabric , bringing back more threads from the base fabric and welding them to the appliqué . |
| 10 | Members of the Colchester Colne Round Table Club collected the party of eight-to-12-year-olds from the Greenstead estate by minibus and took them to the Wilson Marriage Centre in Barrack Street . |
| 11 | Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams . |
| 12 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 13 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 14 | ‘ The owner of the castle would put his family into a boat and row them across the lake to church every Sunday . |
| 15 | But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast . |
| 16 | Security police snatched away members of the 1,000-strong march and beat them about the head with truncheons as the crowd chanted ‘ No violence ’ and ‘ We 're staying here ’ . |
| 17 | A coal-black manservant came out to the carriage and showed them into the house . |
| 18 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |
| 19 | To eliminate the problems of prostitution , they sometimes take the women from the cell , put them in an ambulance and drive them over the border to Honduras . |
| 20 | Before a non-dominant class can become the dominant class it has to ‘ give its ideas the form of universality and represent them as the only rational universally valid ones ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 66 ) . |
| 21 | No , I mean , oven chips you can just put them on the tray and bung them in the oven . |
| 22 | As Maggie took the things from the tray and set them on the table she said , ‘ I know what you 're thinking : we 're slightly barmy . ’ |
| 23 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
| 24 | Or he could wash cars , polish shoes or more lucratively , engage in the growing underground economy selling rare commodities at home or smuggling them across the border to nearby Zaire . |
| 25 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 26 | They had crossed the market , the shopping centre , passed the churches , chapels , religious meeting rooms , fighting to outdo each other and against the countless bars ; even hoping through the wave of religious revival , and the example set by the Queen herself , that they would eventually withdraw sinners from the flames of hell-fire and place them in the arms of the Lord . |
| 27 | Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine . |
| 28 | ‘ It makes them more responsible for their own work and gets them into the idea that they have to work outside normal school hours . |
| 29 | I dig a hole with the hand trowel and pop them under the courgette together with the hands , feet and eyes ( which I 'd already collected ) . |
| 30 | They put pins in their chairs , threw their clothes out of the window and locked them in the bathroom . |