Example sentences of "[vb base] they [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
2 | And all I say in response is , please get up , write on petitions , send them in to M Ps , send them in to the unions . |
3 | ‘ Cut them out of the frames himself ; no , I 'm sure you 're right . |
4 | In Tanzania the Asians suffered attrition in stages as the combined effects of the Arusha Declaration and the nationalization of both private houses and wholesale trade ‘ cut them off at the knees ’ as Nyerere expressed it . |
5 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
6 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
7 | She stared at it for a couple of minutes , then , with a prolonged sigh , began to take them out and put them back into the cupboards and drawers . |
8 | Carefully put them back into the tubes and continue to sift the flour each week until you find that the adults have hatched . |
9 | Give them needle and put them back in the stalls again . |
10 | And he checked and then he went So I took the bags off the pillows in case they were sweating in the bags and I put them out on the seats . |
11 | Look at the words of the hymns , glance at the dates and link them in with the theories we have discussed , and I can promise you that it will all make a little more sense and make it even more evident how our hymn-writers wrestled with the meaning of the cross . |
12 | And get them off of the streets . |
13 | The rise of the Greens had placed the SPD in a difficult position , in that any attempt to capture moderate votes might alienate existing party supporters and drive them over to the Greens . |
14 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
15 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
16 | ‘ Keep them out of the hands of the police , that 's the thing . |
17 | Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron . |
18 | piece cutting off here , I cut , do them out on the outsides first and then I 'll go booooooooooo |
19 | To craft the pots so patiently from earth and water and then deliver them over to the mercies of fire and air . ’ |
20 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
21 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
22 | It was claimed that trustees of the NUM ( the President , the Vice-President and the Secretary ) were in breach of their duties and the High Court ordered them to recover these assets and hand them over to the sequestrators . |
23 | Unless we were adding value to the constituent parts of the group it seemed to us that our plain duty would be to break the group into smaller constituent parts and hand them back to the shareholders . |
24 | And I 've got all these other pills I meant to bring them out and hand them in at the chemists |
25 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
26 | I think , a lot of people see the stray dogs problem as a big problem , certainly if people have decided to partake of pets , they have a responsibility to look after them and not throw them out on the streets . |
27 | Well that one really is I mean cos I see them up in the woods quite a lot |
28 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
29 | He will fetch water for them ( domestiques are often called porteurs d'eau , water carriers ) , give them a wheel when they puncture , pace them back to the field if they fall behind the peloton , lead them out in the sprints and dog their rivals . |