Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 2 | But they got rid of the lot for a couple of Ford motor trucks , and William 's grandad with them . |
| 3 | ‘ People never remember what happened immediately before they got hit on the head , ’ Wexford said cheerfully , ‘ especially when their skulls are fractured . |
| 4 | Liverpool 's inexperience meant they got sucked into the type of game a more experienced side would never have got involved in . |
| 5 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 6 | As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves . |
| 7 | They remain dedicated to the task of setting up a group of integrated schools as a sector of education complementary to the existing system . |
| 8 | They became separated near the river which had become swollen in torrential rain and gales . |
| 9 | The vast majority curse the day they became hooked on the habit . |
| 10 | They became trapped in the ice . |
| 11 | ‘ But somehow , they became rooted in the reserves , whereas we felt they should have zoomed into the premier league and joined the elite of beat . ’ |
| 12 | The oxygen they produced accumulated over the millennia to form the kind of oxygen-rich atmosphere that we know today . |
| 13 | More specifically , they arc focused on the home , with self-provisioning ( DIY , gardening and so forth ) representing a sphere of autonomy where they can literally ‘ be themselves ’ . |
| 14 | When making maps you might start simply by asking the children to draw something on a sheet of paper that they want represented on the map — a house , a shop , the well , the woods … |
| 15 | So what we 're doing now is , and we 'll do again this year , when we publish the telephone directory again , is to send out to divisions any numbers that they want saved on the system . |
| 16 | When an organization invites the Prince or Princess of Wales to make a speech on their behalf , it is customary for them to write a draft , incorporating any appropriate facts and figures or particular message that they want conveyed in the speech . |
| 17 | He says they wer injured in the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 18 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 19 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 20 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 21 | She remembered those kisses they 'd exchanged in the water . |
| 22 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 23 | Crystal chandeliers glittered brightly above a marble floor ; a quartet of musicians played music — real music , Nicolo thought , incongruously , not the brain-frying stuff they 'd played during the fashion show . |
| 24 | He had stuck to his story , that they 'd quarrelled at the dance and he had left early . |
| 25 | Maybe someone had one for sale and they 'd advertized in the papers . |
| 26 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |
| 27 | And then about erm from about an hour , about half an hour later after we 'd sat down we 're just laughing our heads off because the gi , they 'd gone down the pub and we said no , we 'll have a quiet night in . |
| 28 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 29 | When that did n't work out he went to Mal at Monad where they 'd gone for the villanelle . |
| 30 | They 'd gone to the loo together by the time I joined Bunny . |