Example sentences of "they [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 2 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 3 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 4 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 5 | ‘ Why did they build them on the top of hills ? ’ she asked Christopher . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So they moved them to the Catherine Palace . |
| 8 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 9 | and they 've I gave them to them and they put them on the hedges |
| 10 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 11 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 12 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 13 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 14 | And if they died , we us I helping my moni my Mother many at time , to wash them down , before they put them in the coffins . |
| 15 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
| 16 | They compared them with the names on the above catalogue and with those on two other farm catalogues , one dated 1873 , the other 1919 . |
| 17 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 18 | Or do they rent them off the Council or what ? |
| 19 | The C E C when they 're talking about motions sometimes say that they accept them with the qualification and I 'd like to say to Congress this morning will you accept a qualification from the branch moving this to say that we are talking about groups of members and their needs not individuals ? |
| 20 | They guide them with the flick of a thin stick or a gentle word . |
| 21 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 22 | Er , yeah , they had a big electrical drill and they screwed them to the roof with those . |
| 23 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 24 | Then they present them in the accounts as monthly expenses to non-existent scouts abroad , such as Seamus Kelly , a fictional talent-spotter in Ireland , or Henrik Andersson , an imaginary Scandinavian contact . |
| 25 | They arranged them on the shelves : ‘ There 's too many for this shelf . |
| 26 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 27 | Course , they had n't had lorries in them days , they drive them on the road and you see old shepherd coming along with a couple of dogs and goodness knows how many sheep ! |
| 28 | The assistants price the items as they stack them on the shelves , or when they are already on the shelves . |
| 29 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 30 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |