Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 2 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 3 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 4 | To follow the close-up of the pre-headed letter , the first shot should show all the performers together to establish them in the setting . |
| 5 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 6 | The capital was large enough to provide them with the anonymity they badly needed . |
| 7 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 8 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 9 | It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd rather be doing it on my own , ’ Maria responded waspishly , taking advantage of the fact that no one was near enough to overhear them for the moment . |
| 11 | When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses . |
| 12 | They were in a similar position to the person coming along on a standby basis for an airline seat as against the passenger paying a full fare , and without the full rights of a standby passenger , in the sense that the decision whether or not to accommodate them in the college was entirely discretionary . |
| 13 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 14 | We recognise that those who live and work in the vicinity of our plants have the right to know about our activities and we are doing our very best to provide them with the information they require . |
| 15 | Jessamy had promised faithfully not to open them until the morning of her birthday , and she had kept her promise . |
| 16 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 17 | ‘ But we do n't want him just to put them into a cupboard ? ’ |
| 18 | Well I said it , told you to get some just to put them in the garage when it 's hot . |
| 19 | Those that had children struggled desperately to keep them within the state school system and also to see the frequent failures of others to succeed in this as being somehow a rather nasty disease , with compassion and sorrow the appropriate response , rather than the fierce bell-like anger they would all have produced reflexively only ten years before . |
| 20 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 21 | The Latin American ministers urged the EC countries not to forget them as the demand for aid from eastern Europe and the Soviet Union became more pressing . |
| 22 | Connor said later that Cripps pointed out unlawful payments recorded in the books to Bromley but promised not to mention them outside the club . |
| 23 | They do n't achieve because they have to choose , and the only way to get women achieving in a sort of relaxed way is not to force them with the choice between occupation success and families . |
| 24 | He gained his school colours for rugger and was unlucky not to get them for the Field Game and the Wall Game — another game confined to Eton . |
| 25 | Each partner will have the right to inspect the firm 's books , but not to remove them from the place where they are agreed to be kept . |
| 26 | Through the Princes ' Trust in the month we actually give grants to something like twenty people , just to get them off the street , because there was nowhere else they could turn to . |
| 27 | She joined the Garter knights for a reception and lunch before the ceremony before deciding not to join them for the service at St George 's Chapel . |
| 28 | No you 're not to throw them in the air . |
| 29 | They had n't disappeared simply because she had chosen not to reveal them to the world . |
| 30 | Apricot are actually sending their prospective dealers on a two day up-front training course just to familiarise them with the market and what it is likely to entail . |