Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 2 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 3 | But erm I I think some of them let us down a bit . |
| 4 | There are a number of strategies at your disposal and you can use one or a mixture of them to help you over an unexpected hurdle . |
| 5 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 6 | They led us up a series of side streets to a post office near the station . |
| 7 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 8 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 9 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 10 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |
| 11 | reported it and they send him out the flats . |
| 12 | they hooked you out the rapids twice did n't they ? |
| 13 | But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me . |
| 14 | So I think they let her out the day after . |
| 15 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 16 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 17 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 18 | I just cracked up , and they put us down the block . |
| 19 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 20 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 21 | Then they threw him over a precipice . |
| 22 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 23 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 24 | They followed her down a narrow passage and into the sunshine beyond . |
| 25 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 26 | When they pulled her out the vase had n't a crack in it , and then the air-raid warden stumbled … ’ |
| 27 | little shop here and they charge as much as you can and they get the grant to open the shop up and then they close it down a couple of months |
| 28 | They took her down the hospital . |
| 29 | One contained a great still lake , and they crossed it along a rock-bridge that sprang dizzily from wall to wall . |
| 30 | so they 're like sending me a list , well they sent me back a half list |