Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were equally unsteady platforms for a marksman but that did n't preclude one of them getting killed by a chance shot . |
| 2 | They got trapped in a hole , and no one could get near enough to get them out . |
| 3 | And of course they got knocked about a lot . |
| 4 | In they came accompanied by a Sister whose red QA cape clashed horribly with her beautiful auburn hair . |
| 5 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 6 | There they were , they , they 'd gone for a walk round London , and er come back . |
| 7 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 8 | From an outer façade of imposing honey-gold limestone and carved wooden balconies they 'd stepped into a world of contrasts , the latest modern technology against the sixteenth-century splendour of Maltese architecture . |
| 9 | No I think they 'd got to a point where , you know , if you , if you were about erm , they made sure they were the first ones there like the and they , I think they more or less recognized by the merchants they , they were the boatmen . |
| 10 | I think there were some people there who did n't really know , but they maybe went because they 'd got to a funeral . |
| 11 | But they offered a very tempting fee simply to transport an art object , a sculpture , which they 'd bought as a centrepiece for a planetary arts festival they were staging . |
| 12 | The room was about twelve feet square , furnished with old , antique oak merchandise they 'd bought from a shop in Chichester during their first visit to the place . |
| 13 | They get trapped in a place and there , it 's filling with water and they , they 've got ta get them , they got ta , they gon na drown because it 's filling with water and they got ta get out , get out before the room fills with water completely . |
| 14 | From birth , the environment in which babies find themselves is an intensely social one and almost inevitably they become enmeshed in a network of social interactions ( Richards 1974 ; Schaffer 1977 ) . |
| 15 | Some women who started work after their children had grown up felt the need to continue working in order to obtain a reasonable pension on retirement , yet they were forced to retire at 60 , because that is the age when they become entitled to a state and/or occupational pension . |
| 16 | She forced the Girls through their paces for a complete day , at the end of which they fell exhausted in a line on a bench . |
| 17 | A distinctly mature audience had come to hear a band whose fortunes they 've followed for a quarter of a century . |
| 18 | They 've asked for a stand-ball . |
| 19 | They 've asked for a number , have n't they , spec specifically here , which I think that 's detailed enough . |
| 20 | so we made each what was the dining room they 've made into a bedroom , but just do n't that he , cos you could see them doing it . |
| 21 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 22 | ‘ They 've gone on a recce . ’ |
| 23 | so she just told me that so I 'll have all the news of Colin tomorrow they 've gone for a week |
| 24 | They 've gone to a matinee of Starlight Express . |
| 25 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 26 | What they 've done in a matter of a few weeks is put together a data bank of information that 's colossal , and they 're dealing with an enormous amount of , of distress and problems . |
| 27 | things that happened to them while they were making the African Queen and , they 've turned into a story . |
| 28 | Ye , well it 's not in the shop , I think it 's big country house they 've turned into a hotel or something . |
| 29 | I was quite tough with them and , though I 've only ever smacked them once — with the stick end of a feather duster which , since reading Mommie Dearest , they 've turned into a wire coat-hanger — I would often destroy them with tongue-lashings that still twist my conscience today . |
| 30 | Here , they 've moved into a ventilation brick . |