Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | and then you start of cou then you say right erm er let's keep hold of this information so these are retained and there 's also a benefit to the estate agent , and there 's the G A one which of course is er by coincidence is the Aberdeen one but of course we er you know we have them all around the country . |
| 32 | They make them longer during the evenings and Saturday . |
| 33 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 34 | ‘ As soon as some of our members received these letters , they threw them straight in the bin . |
| 35 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 36 | Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table . |
| 37 | I 'll tell you what it does comrades , it kicks 'em right in the teeth . |
| 38 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 39 | He shook them firmly by the hand — a comforting , hearty grasp that cheered Dexter , who had a pet dislike of cold hands proffered nervously like fragile porcelain . |
| 40 | He followed them sadly to the door . |
| 41 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 42 | He arranged them neatly in the executive case open by his side , then concealed the banknotes with several layers of insurance magazines and four paperbacks . |
| 43 | He placed them firmly on the man 's chest and pressed the buttons . |
| 44 | He placed them carefully on the table in the centre of the room . |
| 45 | There surely are some people in A&R who would n't recognise talent if it hit them squarely between the eyes and others inebriated on their own power . |
| 46 | He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’ |
| 47 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 48 | There is no obligation whatsoever for it to extradite them either to the US or UK . |
| 49 | Unlacing her boots , he put them tidily on the floor , then kicked off his own shoes , removed his cravat , unhooked the top button of his shirt , and joined her on the bed . |
| 50 | He bought them literally by the armful , and read as many as three in a day , picked up at random from the piles he had brought home ; yet afterwards he could tell of what he had read , so beautifully , according to Reid , that the book itself would be a disappointment by comparison . |
| 51 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 52 | I tell you what amazes me , Mary , he takes , he can take a conference , when they have a big do he puts them there for the , you know for their dinner or whatever they |
| 53 | It set them apart from the start . |