Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general there seems to be a tendency for structural rock surfaces to be stripped where they approximate to the profile of the wavecut bench . |
| 2 | In fact there is no reason to believe that the Franks were involved in any long-distance migration : archaeology and history suggest that they originated in the lands immediately to the east of the Rhine . |
| 3 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 4 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 5 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 6 | Three out of four PMT sufferers say that they overspend in the days before their period starts — the average ‘ blown ’ is £39 — and some women spend more than £100 , premenstrually , on unnecessary extras . |
| 7 | This analysis raises the same question addressed in the previous section : if the speaker wanted the hearer to recover these effects , why did n't he or she simply say that they sprinted up the hill ? |
| 8 | Some people say that they believe in the Devil but not in demons . |
| 9 | Somewhere in this range , too , are those coincidences that give us an eerie spine-tingling feeling , like dreaming of a particular person for the first time in decades , then waking up to find that they died in the night . |
| 10 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 11 | Consequently , it is suggested that land cultivation grants in the LFA remain withdrawn and that drainage grants are reduced to 30% under both AHDS and AHGS schemes in the LFA except in the proposed Marginal Zone ( the least handicapped Article 3(4) LFA land ) where it is recommended that they revert to the level obtaining outside the LFA ( 22 ½%),; reflecting the increased financial benefit likely to accrue from drainage schemes on such lower elevation , least handicapped land . |
| 12 | I turned our closed circuit cameras onto the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage . |
| 13 | Keith proposed and they married in the Philippines . |
| 14 | Or do you wait till they tire of the taunting and go to release the victim when the coast is clear ? |
| 15 | The old rules have to be revised or discarded because they applied to the circumstances that existed when they were formulated , a hundred years ago . |
| 16 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |
| 17 | EC officials said that the areas , which are regarded as among those most in need of aid , had been omitted because they fell outside the administrative boundary of the Highland and Island region . |
| 18 | It is the way they know they have to pass before they come to the triumph of Easter . |
| 19 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 20 | Both O'Flaherty and Sherington were severely wounded as they got into the warehouse , but with grim determination they staggered clear , leaving a few equally determined Germans in an inner room of the building . |
| 21 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 22 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 23 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 24 | ‘ What makes Worsdale 's work so interesting to you ? ’ he wanted to know as they walked through the gallery , passing among the tourists and the students and the other visitors . |
| 25 | LITTLE did they know as they lazed by the pool that the roof was about to fall in . |
| 26 | A much quoted observation by one grand old man of German science policy , Professor Heinz Maier Leibnitz , points out that German researchers who have done well in stints in the US tend to stagnate when they return to the German system . |
| 27 | According to folklore if a traveller on horseback leaves a horse needing a new shoe together with a coin , the horse will have been shod when they return to the spot . |
| 28 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 29 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 30 | The Easoe scientists said that the ozone loss was more serious than they had expected when they embarked on the £14 million experiment in late 1991 . |