Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , the Dwarfs saw in the savage human tribes potential allies to help them fight the Orcs and , ultimately , to help them win back the lost Dwarf fortresses . |
| 2 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 3 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 4 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 5 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 6 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 7 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 8 | They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition . |
| 9 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 10 | On every side of them , as they rode down the winding valley of the Suir from Clonmel to Carrick , stretched great rolling hills , rising to the distant mountains — Slievenaman to the north , Comeragh to the south . |
| 11 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 12 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 13 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 14 | Between them , they tumbled out the whole story , the peacocks , the stone lions , Evelyn 's mum , Mrs Grace , the notice going up about Hambury — everything . |
| 15 | They shared out the thick broth and dipped their bread in it , licking their fingers . |
| 16 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 17 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 18 | They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made . |
| 19 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 20 | In fact the what , they found out the sacred secret , that 's enlightened them to the Hebrew though |
| 21 | Yeah but , like you say that the to find , to find out the real truth you have to refer to Hebrew anyway because they found out the sacred secret of God did n't they ? |
| 22 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 23 | They fly over the high peaks of the Himalayas and exist in surprising numbers on the permanent ice caps of the Poles . |
| 24 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 25 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 26 | They cut down the flowery mass |
| 27 | But Robbie Supple had been keeping his powder dry on Very Very Ordinary and there was nothing in the least ‘ ordinary ’ about the long , relentless charge with which they mowed down the leading pair between the last two fences . |
| 28 | You know in the paper when they give out the other week |
| 29 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 30 | The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville . |