Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 2 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ They got me on the face , stomach and legs . |
| 5 | Poor devil , they got her on the stage and they said you know , when they |
| 6 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 7 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 8 | Oh well they got it during the War . |
| 9 | They got it out the back of my hand . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Eventually , they laid him on the bed in his own room , and undressed him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They laid her on the couch , Jack huddled at her side . |
| 16 | They laid her on the grass and her wet hair was shiny , like it was slick with grease . |
| 17 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun . |
| 20 | He says they asked her to the disco . |
| 21 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 25 | They read it on the printer |
| 26 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 27 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 28 | They stopped it in the end did n't they ? |
| 29 | They helped her to the carriage . |
| 30 | They moved it round the stack . |