Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So they warm up the water sometimes , they either blow warm air through or at Stoke Bardolph they whip up the erm sewage with fans which beat air into the water , and the aerobic bacteria digest some of the harmful substances in the sewage . |
2 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
3 | Eventually Finn escapes , meets a runaway nigger , and together they escape down the Mississippi in a raft . |
4 | Carefully they cut round the base with a knife , to free any wax that was sealing it down , and eased the skep up off the base stone . |
5 | and they do some singing and everything and also they give out the bibles to those that are going up to school |
6 | Occasionally and inevitably they go over the top — but that 's in the nature of risk . |
7 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
8 | Yeah , well they well they go up the Legion and have a couple of pints , go to the bookie and put some horses on , go home and sit in front of the telly watching horses like . |
9 | But sometimes they go over the top with tricks to get you to buy . |
10 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
11 | And then they slide down the leaf and into the water . |
12 | Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then |
13 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
14 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
15 | I got a right ear'ole bashin' from two o' the ole dears an' then they give out the parcels . |
16 | ‘ There they go along the street … not Jocks though … wrong sort of … |
17 | Instead they tick off the names of influential foreigners in GE 's hierarchy and cite the company 's large international sales and profit figures . |
18 | And you have to pay the little boys to guard your bikes otherwise they let down the tyres . |