Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the rain stopped they rushed to the old roofleaf beds and tried to find the old roots . |
| 2 | Mr Tommy Brennan , stewards ' convenor , says they worked during the 1984-1985 miners strike — incurring the wrath of the NUM — after management warned that any cool down would threaten the works . |
| 3 | The other terms , for example , are all the same in each market , so on averaging they occur in the same form as they do in an individual market . |
| 4 | Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects . |
| 5 | No they are , they lie they lie within the urban settlement of York but outside our boundary . |
| 6 | When they wake they dress in the loosest clothes , |
| 7 | Both the projector and the turntable were powered by the same motor to ensure they ran at the same speed . |
| 8 | ‘ Even so , it seems they went to the American Consulate . ’ |
| 9 | Four-fifths of course participants believe they conform to the ideal : they 're soon disabused by their peers |
| 10 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 11 | Guess they mixed in the same diplomatic circles , got to know each other . |
| 12 | Yeah what makes me laugh they come with the blue lights flashing do n't they ! |
| 13 | They , they 're just not getting back right now , I do n't know if it 's just to be sensitive to her or whether it 's just because , you know , they 're gon na see each o I mean they live on the same road , they 'll probably see each other this weekend . |
| 14 | It had not been posted from outside or even sent through the internal mail in one of the recycled envelopes Prince Charles insisted they used for the interminable memos that are a feature of Palace life . |
| 15 | So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business . |
| 16 | Populations evolved separately in each of these pools , and only when the water rose again did they re-convene in the same lake . |
| 17 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 18 | ‘ What did they think of the electronic tagging idea ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did they know of the deep place in the pond ? |
| 20 | Nor did they know of the old Swedish experiments attempting to make helium from hydrogen in the laboratory . |
| 21 | Neither did they abide by the Scottish Office guidelines ; they carried out the dawn raids and removed nine children from their homes in an emergency operation without reference to any of these documents . |
| 22 | Careful descriptions of speech are necessary because people 's beliefs about their actual linguistic behaviour are often very inaccurate ; many people think they speak in the same way as they write but , in fact , no one does . |
| 23 | I think they start on the eighteenth |
| 24 | Er they 're about halfway in their own league , erm I think they beat by the odd goal the team that we beat four two here . |
| 25 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 26 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 27 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 28 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 29 | What themes emerged in public argument against the slave trade and how do they relate to the basic concern with good order and the imperative of action to achieve it ? |
| 30 | Do they go with the new we 're they gon na go with the new sound system . |