Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 2 | Imagine a mercantile agent who obtains possession of the goods ( perhaps by borrowing them from the owner ) and who shows them to X , an innocent prospective purchaser . |
| 3 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
| 4 | There were thus good reasons for holding dollars but not for holding them in the USA . |
| 5 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 6 | Either issue all the discs separately before offering them in a boxed set , or issue the boxed set first and then issue the discs separately : that is the only fair and honest way of marketing complete sets . |
| 7 | ‘ Not without telling them about the coins . |
| 8 | Indeed , I have blundered straight away by placing them in a context of the 1960s and 1970s , as though in 1970 they stopped ! |
| 9 | At the same time , inspect and clean the gutters and rainwater gullies , emptying them of leaves and silt — finish off by flushing them with a bucket of warm water . |
| 10 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 11 | A similar effect can be obtained for the walls by taking wads of newspaper and wetting them thoroughly before packing them against the walls in papier mache style . |
| 12 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 13 | Answer : You can make all the programs that you always want start automatically by placing them in a special group in the Program Manager called Startup . |
| 14 | If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber . |
| 15 | She left the kitchen to dress while they lamented their miserable exis-tences , and more often than not , she came back from driving them to the bus stop to throw their breakfasts in the garbage . |
| 16 | The present value of those future flows should then be worked out by discounting them with an interest rate equivalent to the firm 's cost of capital , the weighted average of its cost of borrowing and of equity . |
| 17 | Still 's wretched luck initially followed him into management when he was replaced as Maidstone boss immediately after taking them into the Football League in 1989 . |
| 18 | In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words . |
| 19 | In either case files can be pulled off the PC or Macintosh simply by selecting them from the user interface . |
| 20 | In England there was a belief that warts could be removed simply by rubbing them with the tail of a tortoiseshell tom during the month of May . |
| 21 | Still , he thought , Holly would no doubt think twice before following them into a place like that , and to keep beside the brook might well prove safer than wandering about the fields in one direction and another , with the risk of finding themselves , in the end , back at the warren . |
| 22 | Such materials have the advantage that they can be made permanently hard by heating them to a temperature around 15°C , for which reason polymers with this sort of constitution are called ‘ thermosetting ’ . |
| 23 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 24 | Why did I , why did I do , put them in the machine instead of dropping them on the floor then ? |
| 25 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
| 26 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 27 | He 'd washed his hair and piled all his plastic carrier bags into a corner instead of strewing them through the house like the clues of a treasure-hunt . |
| 28 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh or to move their mind with tickling laxity and affect them as a stage player used to do , instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God . ’ |
| 30 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |