Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 2 | The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism . |
| 3 | He made them sound like the Famous Five |
| 4 | He made them sound like the Famous Five . |
| 5 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 6 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 7 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 8 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 9 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 10 | This disagreement led to a reconciliation on the tenth morning culminating in a bout of furious unaccustomed holiday sex ( the kind you do n't get anywhere else ) , which in turn led them to wander onto the beach much later in the day , feeling sheepish and rather pleased with themselves . |
| 11 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 12 | As a result Mrs Pankhurst asked them to withdraw from the WSPU , and the militant suffragette movement split off into the ‘ Peths ’ and the ‘ Panks ’ , with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence helping to found the non-violent Votes for Women Fellowship and the Women 's Freedom League . |
| 13 | On the Sunday following the manor fire , as Tom , Seb , Dolly and Carrie left Swinbrook chapel after the morning service , Christian asked them to come to the farmhouse . |
| 14 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 15 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 16 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 17 | lock Peter Bell got them going with the opening score … |
| 18 | To back-benchers who expressed alarm at VAT on domestic fuel , Mr Lamont and Mr Major simply invited them to step into the real world . |
| 19 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 20 | Suddenly Isabel was no longer floating , she was falling instead , the sensation so swift and unexpected that she flung up her hands to save herself , and found them clinging to the source of the heat above her . |
| 21 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 22 | When Ella came in , exactly three minutes later , she found them standing on the hearthrug , hand in hand . |
| 23 | He let them trail on the ground . |
| 24 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 25 | And he let them help in the shop ( Carrie loved that : measuring out things on the scales and giving the change ) until Nick stole some biscuits one day and he came in and caught him . |
| 26 | As he turned to close the door of the tower behind them , she let them fall to the ground again . |
| 27 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 28 | Two external consultants helped them focus on the key issues . |
| 29 | And flipping , twenty five pounds it cost them to get into the . |
| 30 | As soon as the rain stopped they rushed to the old roofleaf beds and tried to find the old roots . |