Example sentences of "they [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 2 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 3 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 4 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 5 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 6 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 7 | He squatted and started to pick them up , then let them drop back to the floor and just crouched there and put his hands over his face and started to cry . |
| 8 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 9 | They 'd let them sink down to the bottom and drift there with the long-haired weeds — ; |
| 10 | I think they do to a certain extent , but the teachers try and erm brush it away , they try and forget that they are soldiers ' children and try and help them mix in with the civilian children . |
| 11 | What is it about them that makes them stand out from the rest ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen them go up in the sky , ’ said Masklin . |
| 13 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 14 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 15 | After they had gone in and resumed their grind in the usual places , Rose came out to him and said gently , ‘ You were terrible , Daddy , to make them go down to the lake . ’ |
| 16 | Or should they hang on in the hope that these assets will soon be worth serious money ? |
| 17 | Rolling bream are not frightened bream , nor do they hang around in the swim if they 've been spooked by an escaping fish . |
| 18 | What would they do out of the second pizza ? |
| 19 | Might they blow on to the house ? |
| 20 | How do they go on in the senior school . |
| 21 | Yes , would they go back to the same position , quite right Sarah |
| 22 | No longer need they go out into the wilderness and create a village or a hamlet to house their labour . |
| 23 | That 's right , well why ca n't they go out beside the medical centre , again ? |
| 24 | ‘ How did they get on with the Zosers ? |
| 25 | but it looked black from up there , so I er opened the window and rattled the venetian blind and I thought you 'd 've heard that erm and it shot out there , whether it went underneath the gate , can they get through under the gate ? |
| 26 | Why could n't they get down to the important stuff right away ? |
| 27 | So why do they put up with the real foreigners ? |
| 28 | Did they come round with the mike ? |
| 29 | Nor did they come about through the falsification of bold conjectures and the continual replacement of one bold conjecture by another . |
| 30 | Many experts are now asking : ‘ Did they come in for the kill a little too early ? ’ |