Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 2 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 3 | You can buy them one day and bring them back the next |
| 4 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 5 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 6 | The Half House met them round a corner , and Mary Rose exclaimed . |
| 7 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 8 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 9 | Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it . |
| 10 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 11 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 12 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 13 | They must have walked for about another ten minutes and could glimpse the blue wood-smoke rising above the trees from Godstowe village when suddenly the porter stopped , turned left , and led them along a narrow beaten trackway into the forest . |
| 14 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 15 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 16 | If you 've got a pot or tray of seedlings , prick them out the moment you can handle them — holding them by a seed leaf , never a crushable stem . |
| 17 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 18 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 19 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 20 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 21 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 22 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 23 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 24 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 25 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 26 | So she said well I 'll change it she said because I tell you why , we send them back every , every so long , often . |
| 27 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 28 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 29 | Leaning through their window to sting the breasts of the sunning chorus girls with ammo from their pea-shooters in the morning : in the evening beer all round and trying to coax them up an alley . |
| 30 | Under the agreement the seven EFTA member countries would immediately abolish trade barriers on all goods covered except for certain sensitive products , while Czechoslovakia would abolish them over a 10-year period . |