Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
3 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
4 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
5 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
6 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
7 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
8 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
9 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
10 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
11 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
12 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
13 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
14 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
15 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
16 | At last Cranston finished his further refreshment and , with Benedicta so close beside him his heart kept skipping for joy , Athelstan led them out into the great cleared area of Smithfield . |
17 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
18 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
19 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
20 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
21 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
22 | So we 've planted a seed and we either get introductions there and then or we 've paved the way to the pick them up at the second appointment . |
23 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
24 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
25 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
26 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
27 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
28 | By promoting economic aspects and bringing them out into the open for everyone to see , we are contributing towards better informed decisions on the part of prescribers and policy makers alike . ’ |
29 | We never got them out in the first place . |
30 | Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents . |