Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] they [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
2 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
3 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
4 | ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League . |
5 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
6 | When the first Vietnamese arrived in 1975 after the fall of Saigon , the federal government tried to spread them around the country . |
7 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
8 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
9 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
10 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
11 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
12 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
13 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
14 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
15 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
16 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
17 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
18 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
19 | Well , disappointment for Oxford United ; Charlton were there for the taking , United let them off the hook . |
20 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
21 | Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop . |
22 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |
23 | After Ricky 'd settled them in the drawing room with drinks , he went in search of Perdita . |
24 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
25 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
26 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
27 | The snow would certainly invade the tops of her boots when she stepped out of the car , and she swore softly in Ruthenian as she retrieved the groceries from the floor of the car and turned to carry them into the house . |
28 | While he was talking to her , Melissa took the twins out of the pushchair and began to carry them around the store , one balanced on each hip , until she found somewhere to sit down . |
29 | In the Peak District and Northumberland National Parks many people held overnight vigils on appointed summits on the Friday and Saturday nights , while others walked to meet them on the summit . |
30 | Silver roused the others and began to coax them into the field . |