Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 3 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 4 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 5 | Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past . |
| 6 | if they would only produce the same styles that they produce for the up to size twelve . |
| 7 | DID you also puzzle why for that most important debate in the House of Commons last Thursday the women in the Shadow Cabinet chose to dress in a uniform of baby pink so they appeared on the front benches looking like a bunch of misplaced Barbie Dolls |
| 8 | He becomes an entertainer , a manipulator whose victories we watch as if hypnotized , seeing both the tricks and the mesmeric effect that they have on the innocent . |
| 9 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 10 | It may be shown ( using the criterion that they lead to the same set of equations ) that by adding the so-called leakage inductances to the ideal transformer the two representations ( Fig. 4.11 ) become equivalent . |
| 11 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 12 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 13 | It is helpful for them to recognize that if they intend to carry through what they say , they may need to reduce the number of demands that they make on the child . |
| 14 | The Treasury had accepted the idea that international facilities are a cost-effective way to support large-scale research , but is has been reluctant to provide financial incentives to attract such facilities to Britain , following the example of France and Switzerland , because of doubts that they contribute to the country 's economic wealth . |
| 15 | This is permitted only on condition that they help in the conquest of Canaan before returning to a settled life . |
| 16 | The Library issues floras on loan to staff on condition that they remain in the building , and accessible to other Library users during normal working hours . |
| 17 | Their holders would adopt the same position of relative irrelevance that they hold in the republican democracies of Europe . |
| 18 | Despite the eager shouting of his Goblin mates , the Fanatic really has little idea of where he is going , and will happily plough through troops from his own side if they get in the way . |
| 19 | Gradually the haze and sweat cleared from their eyes and they focussed over the open valley they had cycled up from . |
| 20 | Those who were already more vulnerable , however , due to lack of such a relationship , were half as likely to develop depression following a provoking agent if they worked outside the home . |
| 21 | The height , the sky and the distance went to their heads and they skipped in the sunset . |
| 22 | Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession . |
| 23 | Francis parked the car and they walked along the street to the shop . |
| 24 | He called a convocation of the greatest High Elf Mages and they assembled on the Isle of the Dead to begin the great ritual . |
| 25 | Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry . |
| 26 | Sometimes rain lashed the tarred roofs of the huts until they glistened like the skin of a seal . |
| 27 | If the new , friendlier systems do come onto the market , and if they 're bought as presents and so on , and they get into the homes and they get into the schools , then people will just learn to use them , and it 's the existing professionals who may have to change their habits to accommodate . |
| 28 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 29 | Later , Schellenberg called for his Mercedes and they drove to the Tiergarten and walked around the lake , feet crunching in the light powdering of snow . |
| 30 | All policyholders with a stake in the participating with-profits fund will receive a special bonus if they vote for the Aegon deal . |