Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A couple of tins of peas left out , try and find a space for them to go back in again .
2 So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er
3 Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time .
4 And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there .
5 But none of them turned up to today so
6 She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago .
7 Erm , actually on reflection , having seen the bit of disaster that occurred because erm unfortunately Freda did n't get the phone call until early Christmas day morning off her daughter , to say that instead of them coming up to here to see them that something had happened in London , could they go down to her , so she was prepared to do us a half an hour at half past one and then she was going to drive to London !
8 The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own .
9 This might enable them to hold on to around 100 of their present 270 seats .
10 Mr Milosevic is urging the Bosnian Serbs to sign the plan because , he says , it would allow them to hold on to almost all the territory they have won by force .
11 Other symptoms were deemed to be present if they occurred on at least a quarter of the days or occasions , except that passage of mucus was taken as a symptom if it had ever occurred ( this being normal clinical practice ) .
12 Oh erm they erm they did a lot of the work that were Well they helped out at least , they they used to make wearing plates for the mills and that for the chutes and that .
13 Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men , with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody 's skull in pursuit of character .
14 Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater .
15 And it is a big let-down when they fizzle out with only a snap , crackle and pop .
16 There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction .
17 They came over to where he stood and peered inside .
18 This helped them as a creative unit — in 1967 they came up with arguably their greatest single Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever and with the album Sergeant Pepper 's Lonely Hearts ' Club Band which , though it has n't aged particularly well , was certainly a quantum leap forward for popular music at the time .
19 There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons .
20 And as I understand it they came down from somewhere er near they obviously were involved in the slate business and then they or organized their own firm Brothers and I believe it was about seventeen er eighty nine , maybe earlier .
21 Yeah they came back in about ten cos the pizza , we was eating our pizza
22 Had they not seen in the evening the clouds in the West with seas and lagoons , and in the night the lights of the canoes as they sail on for ever ?
23 They open on to not only the main thoroughfares but also narrow alleys like Bucklersbury , which are so characteristic of the City and are rapidly being transformed out of recognition .
24 Yeah , what have they got down in there ?
25 When one looks more closely at the individual creation myths one recognizes that the work will involve more than simple description of the myths themselves ; it will be necessary to go into the societies from which they sprang in at least sufficient detail for the myths to be appreciated in context .
26 Any decision on taxation has to be taken by the member states unanimously and there now seems little hope that the Commission can deflect them from the course they set out upon yesterday .
27 They set out in relatively light winds and gentle snow , with Met Office reports that the winds would drop .
28 They set off at once , everyone looking forward enormously to the proposed cup of tea .
29 many children as they can before they get back to where their group is positioned .
30 They get out from under .
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