Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 2 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 3 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 4 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 5 | They made it to the winning post fairly creditably . |
| 6 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 7 | And here 's how they made it to the semi-finals ; not an easy run , Wakefield was their last step . |
| 8 | He says they asked her to the disco . |
| 9 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 10 | They 'll do anything to make you dependent on them , and then they drag you to the altar and call it love . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 12 | When the wheels were finished they taped them to the four corners of t ] he bed and Mum spread the red blanket over the covers . |
| 13 | They helped her to the carriage . |
| 14 | So they moved them to the Catherine Palace . |
| 15 | Stab the heel and they drip the blood out onto a piece of blotting paper and it dries and they send it to the laboratory and they punch it out and they examine it and they test it . |
| 16 | They invited her to the station , gave her a meal , arranged her flight home then drove her to Manchester Airport . |
| 17 | And they transferred her to the , the Cottage and she did quite well , and she was home . |
| 18 | They drove me to the police station . |
| 19 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 20 | That was recommended to the employers , the employers said yes , that 's the action they would take , they put it to the trustees , the trustees agreed it and that was it . |
| 21 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |
| 22 | Parties must not give effect to a merger before they notify it to the Commission and for three weeks thereafter . |
| 23 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 24 | Sometimes a gets up to thirty and then they give it to the person |
| 25 | Er , yeah , they had a big electrical drill and they screwed them to the roof with those . |
| 26 | They threw him to the ground and beheaded him in front of his son . |
| 27 | Electric bite alarms are useful for night fishing , and many night anglers I know would not fish without them , and no matter what they tell you to the contrary they are mainly used to wake you up when you have a bite ! |
| 28 | We know what the Conservative party thought of Michael Heseltine this week , they cheered him to the echo when he strode on to the platform at Blackpool . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 30 | They followed him to the study because for economy it was the only fire in the house , but he worked through their conversation and did not join it . |