Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |
| 2 | But do they make us pay over the odds ? |
| 3 | They want me to write out the stuff . |
| 4 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 5 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 6 | Chalk greeted them and supplied them with beer but , as they drank , they found themselves looking down the barrels of a dozen pistols ! |
| 7 | And he says they told him to get out the building |
| 8 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
| 9 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 10 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 11 | They heard her go down the passage , then the disagreement about telephoning the police was renewed . |
| 12 | As they worked they monitored continuously the condition of the sea and the sky , the direction of the wind and the length of the day and the night . |
| 13 | they reckon I climbed up the outs the outside of a fucking multi-storey car park for two flights . |
| 14 | They watched it walk around the sheds . |
| 15 | They enable one to draw out the distinctive features of that culture , in a more useful manner than does the framework provided by others , and to consider the impact of both history and resources . |
| 16 | They enable us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals , into smaller , more manageable pieces . |
| 17 | These are very useful , as they enable you to balance up the individual microphone inputs with a degree of precision which is not easy to achieve simply by listening on headphones . |
| 18 | The theoretical tools that we developed in the preceding Lecture have been shown to be extremely versatile ; they enabled us to analyse easily the incidence of taxation in a variety of economies exhibiting different kinds of imperfections . |
| 19 | They did nothing to root out the men who bankrolled the 1989 Centenary Tour which was brought together in such a sordid , furtive fashion . |
| 20 | They do nothing to break up the food into easily swallowed gobbets or to tease out the hard inedible bits . |
| 21 | Well you know how they 've you know where the pipe comes out of the cupboard ? |
| 22 | None the less , they are worth considering , because they help us to understand both the origin and the artificiality of feudalism . |
| 23 | They need us to back up the regular force … but some of the police who are in a supervisory role are anti reserve police . |
| 24 | Then they suggested he check out the thriving scene in Berlin , where Eddie ‘ Flashin' ’ Fowlkes — a similarly-underrated innovator — has also found a second spiritual home . |
| 25 | Well I mean that when we start organization and I am on , I 'm on Cortille and on the committee and they wanted me to take over the Vice Chairman and I said no way . |
| 26 | Stuff that they wanted you know like the erm sugar and the tea and things like that . |
| 27 | The offender held his pistol to the head of a customer who was being served and demanded that the assistants filled two bags with cash ; when one of them hesitated he pulled back the breech of the gun and threatened to shoot the customer . |
| 28 | By all means let them help you think through the objectives of appraisal and offer forms , cards and folders for documentation purposes . |