Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then go on to the ones you marked as " different " and listen to them read one after the other . |
| 2 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 3 | Michelle , who was taking the drug Epilim , said at her home in Whyteleaf , Surrey : ‘ None of them told me about the risk of having a handicapped baby . |
| 4 | Anyone who had drugs on them dropped them to the floor . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun . |
| 6 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 8 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 9 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 10 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 11 | ‘ They got me on the face , stomach and legs . |
| 12 | Poor devil , they got her on the stage and they said you know , when they |
| 13 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 14 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 15 | Oh well they got it during the War . |
| 16 | They got it out the back of my hand . |
| 17 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 18 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 19 | For those people who can sever their own feet and lurch away , they got it round the neck later from a special breed of Tightness that lives in the baskets of flowers up lamp posts . |
| 20 | Eventually , they laid him on the bed in his own room , and undressed him . |
| 21 | Following this , they laid him on the bed again , and when he started to groan May said , ‘ He 'll live , ’ and turning and looking at Mrs Funnell , she added , ‘ Unfortunately , ’ before marching out of the room . |
| 22 | They laid her on the couch , Jack huddled at her side . |
| 23 | They laid her on the grass and her wet hair was shiny , like it was slick with grease . |
| 24 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 25 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 26 | They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun . |
| 27 | He says they asked her to the disco . |
| 28 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 29 | They led her into the interview-room , gave her a cup of tea and got her to sign the consent form — somewhat of a formality as the child was already in Theatre by this time , but at least that way they were covered in the event of any repercussions . |
| 30 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |