Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God .
2 The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ .
3 The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables .
4 But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets .
5 They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching .
6 But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ?
7 See lot lot of these jobs are done by the tide , say you take a ship now what 's been sunk in the river , at low tide they 'll put the wires underneath , make them fast to the ships and when the tide when the t t tide rise out come the ship , and they can take it where they want to .
8 They make them longer during the evenings and Saturday .
9 Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine .
10 Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists .
11 I 've gathered them slowly over the years , because they 're cruelly expensive .
12 Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally .
13 This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans .
14 They know that we send them straight to the cells at An Dap now , no matter how badly they injure themselves .
15 And all I say in response is , please get up , write on petitions , send them in to M Ps , send them in to the unions .
16 Using scissors , cut out six ‘ mirrors ’ from foil and attach them evenly around the sides of the cake using dabs of royal icing .
17 The throng in front of Owen melted away , leaving his men exposed , so he drew them back into the shadows .
18 If you want to produce as many young as possible , it is best to hatch and rear them away from the parents .
19 But what they were asking for our support would we also write to the bus companies again and urge them instead of the buses going down Station Lane to come through our village .
20 The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers .
21 He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots .
22 But he tricked them out of the deeds , then conned them out of £85,000 to buy a Bentley .
23 Sections 6 and 7 of the UCTA override these provisions , and , in effect , provide for mandatory inclusion of such warranties in the contracts covered by these sections , since the easiest way to exclude liability for breach of such warranties is to exclude them altogether from the terms of the contract .
24 I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject .
25 Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol .
26 About to lead them back towards the stables , he lowered his voice and said to Luke , ‘ Did you get it ? ’
27 Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do .
28 Cut them out of the frames himself ; no , I 'm sure you 're right .
29 In Tanzania the Asians suffered attrition in stages as the combined effects of the Arusha Declaration and the nationalization of both private houses and wholesale trade ‘ cut them off at the knees ’ as Nyerere expressed it .
30 His successor , Majorian , is unlikely to have gained the support of the Burgundians in 458 , when he drove them out of the lands which they had received with the approval of the Gallo-Roman senators .
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