Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 2 | So there 's no , even talking if necessary , once they get onto the fire engine , they pick up the receiver then and book-on mobile which tells the Control where they are going , and once at the situation then the conversation is done by , by radio telephone . |
| 3 | They slip off the tongue too easily . |
| 4 | So they warm up the water sometimes , they either blow warm air through or at Stoke Bardolph they whip up the erm sewage with fans which beat air into the water , and the aerobic bacteria digest some of the harmful substances in the sewage . |
| 5 | If they were/are so f*cking classy why could nt they break down the defence ONCE ? ? ? ? ! ? ! ? ! ? |
| 6 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 7 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 8 | They could not rely on support from all of their members and the TUC nor could they call out the membership so as to hit other newspapers and so bring indirect pressure to bear on Shah . |
| 9 | Er and all of a sudden they brought out the catalogue right ? |
| 10 | to become building-mates with Leo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend at 420 West Broadway ( they took over the floor lately occupied by the now defunct 47th Parallel Gallery ) . |
| 11 | They crawled out the bucket all over the deck . |
| 12 | You get a sort of lighthouse flash from the headlights , as they swing round the curve there and out of sight . |
| 13 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |
| 14 | Some of their moves were a delight to watch as they swept up the field constantly , and the rate of scoring hardly slackened all afternoon . |