Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb base] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 3 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 4 | ‘ The owner of the castle would put his family into a boat and row them across the lake to church every Sunday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | No , I mean , oven chips you can just put them on the tray and bung them in the oven . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 6 When the icing is dry , thread ribbon through the hole in the top of each cookie and hang them on the tree . |
| 15 | First clear the six flat rocks from your plot and drop 'em in the tip . |
| 16 | Theodora took a couple of handfuls of the chicken pellets from the split bag in the hall and broadcast them over the gravel . |
| 17 | Speechless with weary anger , she cut herself two crooked slices of bread and put them under the grill . |
| 18 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
| 19 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
| 20 | She disinterred two frozen TV dinners from the big freezer in the basement and put them into the oven to heat . |
| 21 | We used to hunt rats in the basement and put them in the traps , when I was a lad . ’ |
| 22 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 23 | Jessamy picked them up , wandered through to the kitchen and put them on the table . |
| 24 | At the dump , we took two yellow bags which had been left by the truck and put them in the boot of a car . |
| 25 | ‘ It would have been easy for me to bring in someone without any experience and ease them into the job , ’ said Stapleton , now 36 . |
| 26 | In the real , as opposed to celluloid , world , Roxburgh would settle for a win emphatic enough to stabilise his team and prepare them for the more demanding games ahead . |
| 27 | One is that academic research should pluck the fruits of the contemporary political agenda and lend credibility to vogue and vague notions that may fleetingly assume a high profile , reify concepts that are of the moment and endow them with the status of real analytical phenomena . |
| 28 | Or is this the time to bring home a few ingots , dig up the cellar and bury them under the floor ? |
| 29 | To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace . |
| 30 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |