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

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1 Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop .
2 Those educationalists who deny children these opportunities are confining them to the ghetto , to a restricted discourse which will close to them access not only to the professions but also to leadership in national politics .
3 DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses .
4 It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ .
5 If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’
6 ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again .
7 My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force .
8 While the Independent 's raising prices , Rupert Murdoch 's cutting them at the Sun and the Times .
9 Erm the the er Professor Lock was saying well you know the way you get your footloose industry is to present them with an absolute guarantee of planning permission .
10 The recommended treatment for infested books is to put them into a sealed tin with a jar of paradichlorobenzine for a week .
11 But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances .
12 But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances .
13 Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English .
14 Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence .
15 A simple method for remembering the names of the three areas is to associate them with a particular point of the body .
16 The railways are now in division three and the government 's plan is to take them into the non-league .
17 Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course .
18 He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future .
19 Hundreds of smaller , locally organised anti-war actions have occurred nationwide , but little attention is afforded them by a media cowering under government charges that it contributed to the US defeat in Vietnam .
20 Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them .
21 As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food .
22 Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy .
23 Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval .
24 The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern .
25 His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition .
26 As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world .
27 We must make it clear to students that they can appeal against their rent to a tribunal so that the tribunal can decide whether the landlord is overcharging them on the council tax element .
28 ‘ They are based on a freelance design and one of the main things was make them with a view to easy maintenance , ’ explained Mr Blackhurst .
29 And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord .
30 Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias .
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