Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel them pierce through to the back of her head . |
| 2 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
| 3 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Before leaving , Risdon tied up both men , left them face down in the bathroom , and fired a gun into the mattress , ’ claimed Mr Curtis . |
| 5 | I like watching them get out of the water — they look real funny . |
| 6 | Even when I eavesdrop I hear nothing but sex , thought Pascoe watching the four of them disappear out of the bar . |
| 7 | I mean we , we said to them ring up on the day |
| 8 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 9 | For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef . |
| 10 | Well anyway , it reaches night and the three of them go down into the attic . |
| 11 | And the Relief Committee and the Board of Works inspector upstairs — four of them go out on the balcony , and there was a silence would have lifted off your hat . |
| 12 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 13 | And I warn you , if any of my designs or anything like them turn up in the showroom at the House of Oliver I shall sue — and win the sort of damages that will put your little friend out of business for good . |
| 14 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 15 | There are no hotel bills , they chip in for the petrol and food and everybody 's happy . ’ |
| 16 | Obediently , resignedly , he swings the car round in a dangerous U-turn at the next intersection and they flash back towards the airport , the jewel factories and towerblocks of the Bangkok suburbs thinning out again to the dim outlines of swampy fields pierced by palmtree plantations . |
| 17 | This type of alteration is called saussuritisation , and other similar types of hydrothermal alteration can be recognised in the other igneous rocks of the igneous complex of south Harris where they crop out in the thrust zone . |
| 18 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 19 | Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation . |
| 20 | 9 Write in the names of the plants where they fit in to the pattern and draw a circle round them to indicate the extent of their final spread . |
| 21 | ‘ We have to listen to what they want out of the Association . |
| 22 | They report back to the manager on the progress of the batches . |
| 23 | They cry out for the magic of the modern movies . |
| 24 | Then , as one , they slink back into the darkness , seeking privacy and safety in the womb of the undercut . |
| 25 | In the case of policemen at Easton , this sport is situationally constrained by the common-sense knowledge they build up of the court room setting and its players . |
| 26 | The abnormal proteins produced by these degenerative diseases are relatively indigestible , so they build up in the lysosome . |
| 27 | For most Americans , it is simply what they fly over on the way to either coast . |
| 28 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 29 | " Were it not for what they receive out of the tax … they would not knit or spin for so small wages , as they receive for that work , because they would starve by it . " |
| 30 | The trouble is that it I know , I say I 'm going on about have n't got a copper and everything , then they walk up to the bar and pull out a great wad of notes |