Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
| 2 | They must squash them in the hand and just throw it in must n't they ? |
| 3 | Well hopefully they 'll pass them round the table . |
| 4 | In fact I 'm sure they 'll beat them at the Manor and go through to the next round where hopefully we can probably play one of the big teams like — Oh , Manchester United , Newcastle or probably — Oh , I do n't know |
| 5 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 6 | You started , I forget one , you know they 'd put them on the bo It was all board and slates , there were no books , you know , no papers . |
| 7 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
| 8 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 9 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 10 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 11 | They used to have them in the in the houses you see . |
| 12 | Into these , just a crate , and they used to get the old pigs and they used to shove 'em in there , shove the trap down , and they used to load them on the ships , they went back to Poland . |
| 13 | stuff like that , and they used to make them through the winter and come up here in the summer and sell them . |
| 14 | They will put them in the gaol for that ! ’ |
| 15 | Erm and they will keep them in the archives and I suppose transcribe them or something of the sort . |
| 16 | The RUC are anxious to speak to the driver of a maroon Maestro car which was close to the murder scene yesterday morning , in order that they can eliminate them from the murder investigation . |
| 17 | and then they can expect them at the end of like x amount of time to be able to take over a department , then when it falls apart they 're gon na be the one to take it . |