Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 3 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A coal-black manservant came out to the carriage and showed them into the house . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They put pins in their chairs , threw their clothes out of the window and locked them in the bathroom . |
| 8 | The TV reporter swung his eyes back from the window and trained them on the superintendent in a long , calculating stare . |
| 9 | Earnestly , Oz scooped them out of the basket and held them towards the woman . |
| 10 | Supposedly a giant called Cormoran , known as the Lord of St Michael 's Mount , carried the boulders from the mainland and dumped them in the sea to make the mound . |
| 11 | She dropped them on the chopping-board and crushed them under the blade of her knife . |
| 12 | The glass itself was converted into smudged mirrors which enlarged their ambience and distanced them from the storm . |
| 13 | I once took all eleven of my Dad 's angelfish to school in a jam-jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . |
| 14 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 15 | So he caught them up in his cloak and carried them to the top of the mountain , and there he showed them all the treasures and towns and palaces that were in the world . |
| 16 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 17 | Working frantically and fast Franca dragged her clothes out of the wardrobe , carried them onto the landing and threw them down the stairs . |
| 18 | Eddy v Niman is open to the criticism that in the terms of s.3(1) there was an assumption of the rights of the owner when he took the goods from the shelf and placed them in the shopping trolley . |
| 19 | Then she heaved the pails out of the trough and carried them into the dairy , pouring some of the milk carefully into wide pans for the cream to rise . |
| 20 | I once took all eleven of my dad 's Angel Fish to school in a jam jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . ’ |
| 21 | The hill people cut the palms down in the forest and brought them to the shore for fish . |
| 22 | He raised his sword and answered them with the same word . |
| 23 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 24 | Yeah cos what , what they said like , their own , cos they run out of wine at the bar and er , they went in the supermarket and got two bottles of wine and kept them on the table you see |
| 25 | So I included lots of my old yoga positions in the routine and combined them with the small isometric movements for maximum impact on the muscles . |
| 26 | He turned on the tap and washed them , then brought them back into the room and dried them with the tea-cloth . |
| 27 | They carried the bodies in silence across the room and dumped them into the wooden container . |
| 28 | As they conquered peninsular Italy and Sicily in the third century BC , the Romans took works of art and dedicated them to the gods at Rome . |
| 29 | I took down our saddle bags from the hook in the wall and flung them on the bed . |
| 30 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |