Example sentences of "they all [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies — |
| 2 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 3 | The waiting silence was broken by , ‘ I 'd say the train is leaving Carrick now , ’ and they all went to the fields behind the house to catch a glimpse of the train as it passed . |
| 4 | ‘ And I was the last man off of 17,000 because I was still in the bus when they all went to the start . ’ |
| 5 | That used to be with er a piece of net in and across the top used to have two piece of wire , one way , and two piece the other and you catch a crab open the crab open and they used to put the crab between there and the whelks used to feed on the crab and then when you pulled it out , they all went to the bottom of the net . |
| 6 | They all went into the nearest back-court , a circle was formed , the contestants stripped to the waist , then faced each other . |
| 7 | Yes , but they all went into the factories did n't they ? |
| 8 | And then they all went down the drain when you came to Nottingham . |
| 9 | I expect they all went in the Second World War . |
| 10 | Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron . |
| 11 | If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents . |
| 12 | They all came from the same supplier . |
| 13 | And do you think they all came from the same kind of background as yourself or were they more working people ? |
| 14 | One day just after breakfast they all gathered in the milk-house . |
| 15 | After tea that day they all gathered in the kitchen and Mum brought out two great big bags full of dry brown stuff that she bought in the flower shop . |
| 16 | All the aquariums house bogwood with the Plecs , as they all graze on the wood , and it does seem to constitute an important part of their diet . |
| 17 | ‘ They all died in the blood and muck . ’ |
| 18 | They all looked at the president , and then at General Vashinov . |
| 19 | They all looked at the dark square and saw that it was hardly a manhole , more of a childhole . |
| 20 | They all looked at the spreading crystal world . |
| 21 | They all looked across the road as they heard their father call . |
| 22 | Then they all stared at the passages that radiated off the control-room . |
| 23 | They all stared at the needle stuck in one place while the record continued to revolve . |
| 24 | Erm , I know three blind mice , three blind mice , three blind mice , see how they run , see how they run , they all run after the farmer 's wife , he cut off their tails with a carving knife , have you ever seen such a thing in your life , three blind mice |
| 25 | It was another one of the tower rooms , with a semi-circle of windows giving on to the mountains , and for a moment they all halted on the threshold , too stunned to move by the sight of the magnificent blaze of the setting sun throwing the snow-covered peaks into relief . |
| 26 | One time that used to be further in the dock and I used to be let the erm , the manager know , the pool manager , cos at one time before the war , dockers were erm casual and when the war started , then they thought theirself , right we 're gon na make er dockers more or less permanent , so they all come under the Ipswich Dock Commission then . |
| 27 | This format makes it easy to fit the words to the ( edited ) pictures and to cue them to the start of each section so that they all come at the right place when they are being recorded onto the video sound track . |
| 28 | This example is indeed a cautionary tale , as the work of the two engravers was traditionally attributed to two different mints ( Rome and Tarraco , in Spain ) , but the discovery of numerous die links ( see below ) between each group has shown that they all come from the same mint . |
| 29 | They all knew about the big house in its own grounds and the genuine Yankee jeep his father drove . |
| 30 | But he 'll go on applying the skills learnt on those days in the Nottingham library to a wider cricketing canvas , and using that cast accumulated knowledge to enlighten others — not least the thousands of schoolchildren who visit Trent Bridge in parties each year : ‘ Last season we had several hundred children through on the day when Derek Randall needed one run to complete his 20,000 for the county — and I made certain they all knew about the landmark . |