Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaf-cutting ants of South America build vast underground nests and set off from them , day and night , in long columns to demolish trees , removing every shoot , leaf and stem , section by tiny section and transporting them all back to their underground chambers . |
| 2 | The children opened each jar and sampled them all . |
| 3 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |
| 4 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 5 | The play , therefore , interrogates heavenly power as much as hellish power and finds them both tyrannical — clearly upsetting any recourse to the older morality tradition as a satisfactory explanation for Faustus 's demise . |
| 6 | So why do n't you use your common sense and show them some respect ? |
| 7 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 8 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 10 | So I did all their clothes last night and got them all dried |
| 11 | Before we start Scottish questions , I remind Members from Scottish constituencies that , as is my practice , I shall seek to call those who were not called last time and give them some preference . |