Example sentences of "they [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 2 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 3 | The reference to ‘ ancient and approved custom ’ might have tempted ingenious demur by the bishops , but Edward left them in no doubt where their best interest lay : ‘ know for certain that if you so act , we shall forcefully seize your baronies . ’ |
| 4 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 5 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 6 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 7 | No , take them down a bit |
| 8 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 9 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 10 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 11 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 12 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 13 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 14 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 15 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 16 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 17 | So they unharnessed the wagons , left them down the Barking road and brought the horses to the smithy . |
| 18 | Put them down the hole . |
| 19 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 20 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
| 21 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 22 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 23 | We 'll have to take them down the recycling . |
| 24 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 25 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 26 | Well we had to drag them down the hall . |
| 27 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 28 | And when and when erm dad got in a Land Rover round field it used to beat them down the field ! |
| 29 | Then the fire died down and Isambard 's more timorous followers came hurtling after him , and by sheer weight swept their opponents before them down the hillside . |
| 30 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |