Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 2 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 3 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 4 | It was heavy , and large , " The size of a small skip ! " she joked , and they got it out of the van and up the path and into the house . |
| 5 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 6 | They were in the wrong , and they admitted it later in the day in one of those special P.G.A . |
| 7 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 8 | Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet . |
| 9 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |
| 10 | By the time they made it back to the house she no longer knew whether she was as fine as she had insisted on telling him . |
| 11 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 13 | Impressed , they passed him on to an agency with a good reputation for seeing young people . |
| 14 | They read it out of the horoscope . |
| 15 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 16 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 17 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 18 | They moved them out of the way but not out of the district , just to somewhere handy where they could easily pick them up . |
| 19 | So they moved us out into a hotel . |
| 20 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 21 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 22 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 23 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 24 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 25 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 26 | They turfed him out as an 18-year-old before Cambridge gave him a lifeline trial . |
| 27 | They surveyed it together in the dressing-table glass , heavy , thick stuff falling to her elbows , the colour of barley sugar . |
| 28 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 29 | Kathleen grabbed Amy and they lifted her on to a trolley and wheeled her into Resus . |
| 30 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |