Example sentences of "they [vb base] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 2 | ‘ On the continent , if managers do that they get kicked out by the players . ’ |
| 3 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 4 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 5 | But make sure , you know , you well you take over the house , so we know what 's in them in case they get thrown out with the bloody rubbish ! |
| 6 | Now they get knocked down on the roads . |
| 7 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 8 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 9 | But other couples will either find a way through and re-negotiate their relationship to allow for the different people that they 've now become , or they may shelve them because they get caught up in the , the very busyness of life , what we call the , the productivity phase , which is the third phase , where couples are maybe having children , building up a family , building up careers ; they 're involved in that sort of activity . |
| 10 | Now , of course , we we know that that you know , that that that that er , that even then , part of that settlement has has gone because they 've cut off on the of the Western by-pass , I mean , you 've still got er , er |
| 11 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 12 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 13 | Do you think perhap , erm , because it 's not so busy , do you think perhaps they 've cut back in the restaurant , and that 's why you 're doing a bit more work for the restaurant , you know , doing the floaters and things . |
| 14 | If anyone feels they 've missed out on the award and that they know someone they fell ought to have been nominated , then they should do so next year . |
| 15 | They 've run over to the sheep ! |
| 16 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 17 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
| 18 | It is er as I see it they 've gone back to the drawing board with where the bands are actually how it 's banded . |
| 19 | ‘ Or it might be one of the people they 've turned out of the bins , ’ said Pam . |
| 20 | On the gallops they 've huddled in against the hedgerows to watch and study the form . |
| 21 | I decide they 've crashed in like the SAS do after lobbing a stun grenade — barging in screaming to disorien-tate the enemy . |
| 22 | Some find it hard to make a decision because they 've got out of the habit or they no longer see the need . |
| 23 | They 've got in on the shelves there . |
| 24 | ‘ And they 'll never rest until they 've caught up with the States . ’ |
| 25 | Because they 've pissed around with the decision for so long . ’ |
| 26 | That 's the bit they 've knocked down to the put the Smiths and that , the other side of it , this bit . |
| 27 | And er , we 'll see that if they 've , if they 've come through with the goods all right . |
| 28 | Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ? |
| 29 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 30 | In their notoriously fashion-based hometown they 've stuck out from the crowd by not following rules and soldering disparate musics together when everyone else was trying to fit into narrow categories . |