Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 2 | ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out . |
| 3 | They sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology . |
| 4 | It 's followed by more noise , sharp and ugly , as they drag him into the kitchen . |
| 5 | They 'll do anything to make you dependent on them , and then they drag you to the altar and call it love . ’ |
| 6 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 7 | What is more , the Spirit who has become resident in the followers of Jesus mediates to them the victory over the world which Jesus had ( 4:4 ) as they trust him for the power to overcome temptation ( 5:3,4 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ It makes you think , when you hear people call you Chariie as they sling you on the slab . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah they squeeze you off the road if you go up that hill to Hockerill lights . |
| 10 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 11 | And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |
| 12 | They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 13 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 14 | Stab the heel and they drip the blood out onto a piece of blotting paper and it dries and they send it to the laboratory and they punch it out and they examine it and they test it . |
| 15 | Whatever is necessary they have , they receive it from the community , and the magistrate takes care that no one receives more than he deserves . ’ |
| 16 | They catch you on the hop . |
| 17 | ‘ They let me on the train . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 19 | Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that . |
| 20 | And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know . |
| 21 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 22 | They put me in the prison hospital . |
| 23 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 24 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 25 | They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did . |
| 26 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 27 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 28 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 29 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 30 | Then they put us in the block . |