Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] they [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course .
2 The biologists and the applied scientists have done this , have offered lectures to school children , mostly in response to requests that have come in to them for specific lectures .
3 They travelled all that day without a break , and for most of the time the sun beat down on them with fiery intensity .
4 OLD ASIA hands still talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days in many of the region 's cities and ports , which have since had much of their former life and glamour squeezed out of them by oppressive regimes , overcrowding or economic decline .
5 Damian ffrench-Farce , their ‘ brilliant , totally undiscovered ’ interior designer , scoured dozens of builders ' yards , hunting down just the right sort of town-house brick , thrown out in the course of demolishing other houses of similar vintage ; when the supply ran out , bricks were made specially for them by local craftsmen .
6 What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations .
7 Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so .
8 Look out for them at major department stores .
9 ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties .
10 A phase of tranquillity and knowledge , of acceptance and harmony , when jealousies and rivalries would drop away from them like dead leaves ?
11 We could meet up with them in public and I could n't guarantee not to strangle him on sight .
12 The lime trees were glorious in their young green , and , in default of the immemorial elms , the doves were moaning away in them like mad .
13 We went slowly through them in low gear , rolling like a ship in a heavy sea , our rigging of ropes , which lashed all the bags in place , creaking loudly .
14 consumption of or the taking away by them of alcoholic liquor at or from the premises where they are residing ( ( c ) and ( d ) ) .
15 If we spot the fish we can cast directly to them with strong tackle and a big bait , or we can move from swim to swim until we find where a big barbel or two are feeding .
16 My hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) spoke eloquently about them in general and about how they would apply in his particular case .
17 But they also take scraps thrown out for birds , together with the bread and milk put out for them by well-meaning animal lovers .
18 But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series .
19 But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series .
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