Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 2 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 3 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 4 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 5 | But she nipped back down to nick 'em For a knees-up in High Wycombe , For an evening quite near Chevening And a dawn at Kilmacolm . |
| 6 | I mentioned to [ the neighbourhood policeman ] what [ the girl ] had said , who obviously associated them with the police who arrested her father . |
| 7 | Somehow she could not help but suspect that he would think it immoral to squeeze extra wages out of his stepfather , only to hoard them beneath the floorboards . |
| 8 | ‘ We should perhaps remind them of the dangers they run , provoking us to … retaliate ? ’ |
| 9 | Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's difficult to work out somebody 's background when you only see them on the ski-slopes or fooling around après-ski . |
| 11 | They literally pushed them down the stairs ? |
| 12 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 13 | They were able to be original in their methods precisely because the Labour movement was weak and did not trap them in the confines of established institutions and procedures . |
| 14 | Theologically , if we are going to accept cremation at all ( given our belief in bodily resurrection ) should we not at least commit the ashes to a grave and not scatter them to the winds ? |
| 15 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 16 | In a democratic society , this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science , so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts . |
| 17 | ( It is best not to twine them around the legs of the chair — or even to cross your feet or ankles — as this only causes tension on the nerve endings . ) |
| 18 | Straight afterwards we headed home , from where the Diary is being written , to welcome the bairns back from school , make their tea , and while doing the washing up generally box them round the lugs . |
| 19 | Just write them in the boxes Joy on the paper |
| 20 | ‘ We should be encouraging more shoppers into the town not luring them to the edges . ’ |
| 21 | Do you use them as a raft , or just throw them to the sharks and sort of watch them sink ? |
| 22 | Yet these non-Conservative elements — the Liberal Nationals and National Labour — were becoming more and more adjuncts to the Conservative party , and they owed their seats entirely to the willingness of the Conservatives not to oppose them in the constituencies . |
| 23 | It is possible that , while we lose the administrative costs incurred by property valuation , we could easily replace them with the valuations of the poll tax for many different households . |
| 24 | This means that customers who like the retailer 's own brand goods can quickly identify them on the shelves . |
| 25 | Oh we 've still got them in the demijohns yet |
| 26 | She could hardly thank them for the tears in her eyes . |
| 27 | There are people who go about liberating tame animals into the wild , stealing koi carp from ornamental ponds , for example , and releasing them in lakes , where the pike will quickly re-initiate them into the rhythms of nature . |
| 28 | But this , Dinda 's underwear is so flimsy , bras , and pants and ankle socks and nylon , then , minuet space for airing off my bras , usually tuck them behind the pipes so they do n't get mixed up with but Keith 's see rummages through the socks and underwear |
| 29 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 30 | Have you checked whether their grammar book really prepared them for the complexities of communication ? |