Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 2 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 3 | ‘ Individually , they are very nice children , ’ says John , ‘ but put them together and they bring out the worse in each other — like football supporters . ’ |
| 4 | They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition . |
| 5 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 6 | On every side of them , as they rode down the winding valley of the Suir from Clonmel to Carrick , stretched great rolling hills , rising to the distant mountains — Slievenaman to the north , Comeragh to the south . |
| 7 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 8 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 9 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 10 | Between them , they tumbled out the whole story , the peacocks , the stone lions , Evelyn 's mum , Mrs Grace , the notice going up about Hambury — everything . |
| 11 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 12 | They shared out the thick broth and dipped their bread in it , licking their fingers . |
| 13 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 14 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 15 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 16 | They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made . |
| 17 | Biological systems tend to normally pick up a particular isomer in most cases , if they pick up the wrong one it will affect , for example the protein chain it will affect , ultimately , its three dimensional structure and therefore , it 's function . |
| 18 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 19 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 20 | In fact the what , they found out the sacred secret , that 's enlightened them to the Hebrew though |
| 21 | Yeah but , like you say that the to find , to find out the real truth you have to refer to Hebrew anyway because they found out the sacred secret of God did n't they ? |
| 22 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 23 | And they build up the old . |
| 24 | They fly over the high peaks of the Himalayas and exist in surprising numbers on the permanent ice caps of the Poles . |
| 25 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 26 | By describing , for example , the histories of western psychological concepts of the Madonna-like good mother , who is present , sensitive , and , currently , stimulating , and the bad mother , who is the reverse , they map out the political and ideological origins and currencies these concepts have , beyond the biologized significance which traditional psychology gives them ( e.g. Adams 1983 , Hardyment 1983 , Riley 1983 , New and David 1985 , Urwin 1985 ) . |
| 27 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 28 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 29 | As they drove out the next funeral cortège was coming up the drive . |
| 30 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |