Example sentences of "[verb] they [det] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Avignon 's captain , strolling down from the bridge in a crisp , freshly starched uniform , smiled on hearing their banter and approached to greet them both with a formal French handshake . |
| 2 | ‘ We , ’ he proclaimed , encompassing them all with a theatrical gesture , ‘ are Contraband . ’ |
| 3 | In any one place , the two species gain by resembling each other , because predators will treat them both as the same kind of prey ; but few predators move far enough for there to be any advantage to the Heliconius in looking the same in distant places . |
| 4 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 5 | But if neither confesses , all the DA can do is nail them both on a lesser offence , for which the maximum sentence is one year . |
| 6 | She got them both with a single burst , and sprinted away , zig-zagging down a side-street . |
| 7 | Villagers arrived and helped them both to a local hospital — ‘ a filthy hospital with no sanitation — we begged them to use a clean needle . |
| 8 | We would have preferred to choose them all as the German Rose of Tralee , ’ |
| 9 | Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce . |
| 10 | We show them some of the dirty ticks , but it 's pretty elementary because none of those boys are likely to be used in any sort of field work . |
| 11 | I think he 's passing them both on the same time . |
| 12 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 13 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 14 | I put them all in a large bag with some heavy stones . |
| 15 | I put them all in the deep freeze . |
| 16 | Cattle and pigs , sheep and deer , fowl of all kinds both tame and wild were roasted by the dozen to feed them all with a generous hand , as Maclean honour required . |
| 17 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
| 18 | So I 'm disagreeing with what you 're saying , because you , you 're tarring them all with the same brush . |
| 19 | And through this , Charles inspired awe in those who fought along with him and encouraged them all to a confident hope that things would go well for them . |
| 20 | With the aid of many ‘ outside ’ advisers , both professional and amateur , we scrutinised them all in the 2 weeks of sorting . |
| 21 | " Let's not hang about , " Collins said , ushering them both into the darkened hallway . |
| 22 | I have n't got time to er mark them all in a formal sense , so just bring a plan y'know if y give me somebody give me a mock title cos I 'm very reluctant to dream up titles under these circumstances Okay , compare and contrast two theories of aggression . |
| 23 | So instead she stormed into the kitchen , surveyed the two lumps of meat and the assortment of vegetables , threw them all into the largest pot she could lay her hands on , and fried them . |
| 24 | ‘ You know what I want to do — and I wanted to do it for Jimi 's birthday in his anniversary year , but it did n't happen — I want to get everybody that ever recorded with him , anybody who played live with him , get them all at a big reunion and go out and play Hendrix all night long — every song that I know , every song that we could possibly do . |
| 25 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 26 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 27 | Which is probably better than getting them all at the same time . |
| 28 | It would be perfectly reasonable to keep them all in the same genus . |
| 29 | He bent down , still trying to keep them both at the same height . |
| 30 | To call all these jobs by the same name is to disguise their differences , to reduce them all to the same common denominator . |