Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 2 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 3 | As he stepped out , they flung themselves out of his reach , all at once , silently , before resuming their sawing song . |
| 4 | They come out of lectures and then they round them up and put them in a small group , you know . |
| 5 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 6 | ‘ They said it would be all right if I had the serial numbers but I do n't think they expected me back , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Cos up in the , the erm paper shop they got somebody in and she does it like special for p for pensioners . |
| 8 | They got them in . |
| 9 | Towards the end , and no doubt full of beef and beer , they got him on to his feet ; but despite encouraging shouts he was speechless . |
| 10 | ‘ He helped Mr Benson into the basket and they got him out , ’ said a national park spokeswoman . |
| 11 | ‘ Four different priests gave me conditional absolution before they got me out . |
| 12 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 13 | Well , they got me out , and into our trenches , and patched me up , and I was just leaving when the Huns started shelling . |
| 14 | I hope that they got something out of it . |
| 15 | ‘ Wonder how the hell they got anything up from there . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Do you think they got anything out of her ? ’ he asked . |
| 17 | They might know whether they got it back or whether it went . |
| 18 | So it 's , it was n't a new thing when they brought but nevertheless erm that went on and on and on then and er cos the staff really went down , the requirements for staff went down and erm I , I think erm , they got it down when I left there to round about a hundred and forty six staff was , was all that was required . |
| 19 | And they got it down to , not the bricks but the sand that the bricks was made of because |
| 20 | It was heavy , and large , " The size of a small skip ! " she joked , and they got it out of the van and up the path and into the house . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought they got it out when they operated . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 23 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 24 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 25 | I wear them every Sunday because they bring him back to me . |
| 26 | they make too much fuss of him and they bring him back |
| 27 | I wait two yards from the foot of the steps as they bring him out . |
| 28 | And they bring them up to me |
| 29 | They take them there , they train them and they bring them back again in the evenings as well . |
| 30 | Now they bring them out ready-cooked . |