Example sentences of "they [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the little amulet which told them most about the girl . |
| 2 | America and Germany are countries which are particularly good at recruiting and keeping in regular contact with their supporters , which makes it far easier to galvanise them when you need them most in the run-up to an election . |
| 3 | That 's the top part the bottom part is open to negotiation and that 's why I 've put them altogether at the bottom . |
| 4 | Both Morse and Lewis stood , rather warily , beside the car as Downes began to fiddle ( once more ) with a hearing-aid one which looked to them suspiciously like the model that had earlier given rise to such piercing oscillation . |
| 5 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
| 6 | ‘ The key is train them properly from the word go , ’ Steve emphasised . |
| 7 | Sergeant Bird watched fascinated while Frobisher diligently examined every vessel , finally dissecting them right off the base of the brain in order to see the other side . |
| 8 | They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century . |
| 9 | " I can pick up a horse and rider in my talons and carry them right across the forest . " |
| 10 | As these are decorations and not toys , you can use glass or pearl-headed pins to make the halo , either pushing them right into the head like a wreath , or half-way in so that the halo stands away from the head . |
| 11 | Make the mix fairly dry and press it well down into the joints , filling them right to the top and finishing them flush . |
| 12 | You must have disturbed them right in the act . " |
| 13 | And if you 're in the middle of a supermarket , you can talk to them right in the middle of a supermarket . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |
| 15 | Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard . |
| 16 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
| 17 | I keep them on for the programme . |
| 18 | We just clear them on to the runway and tell them what other traffic we expect . |
| 19 | ( iii ) Transfer embryos to 1% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 and mouth pipette them on to the centre of a prepared coverslip . |
| 20 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
| 21 | To give the screens extra stability , screw them on to the floor or support them with hooks attached to the wall . |
| 22 | He walked around picking up files , looking at them and then throwing them on to the floor . |
| 23 | Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water . |
| 24 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 25 | And that they , two people , you know somebody every week will collect in all the languages books and take them along er , or the language homework and take them along to their language teacher and the other one will take the history le , homework and take them on to the history teacher , and then they go off to assembly alright ? |
| 26 | He tossed them on to the back seat and went to the passenger side of the car . |
| 27 | With a flick of its head , it throws them on to the water . |
| 28 | Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked . |
| 29 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 30 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |