Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] they in the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well I said it , told you to get some just to put them in the garage when it 's hot . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No you 're not to throw them in the air . |
| 9 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 10 | And Mr Robinson explained : ‘ The meeting was called to let the fans have their say and also to put them in the picture . |
| 11 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
| 12 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 13 | SUEDE 's past has come back to haunt them in the form of a former business associate with whom they had dealings before signing to the Nude label . |
| 14 | I probably ought n't to leave them in the car too long . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 16 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 17 | I know we 're not inviting anybody for lunch Christmas day could n't cope with that but it would be quite to have them in the afternoon ca n't cope with the people ! |
| 18 | She was feeling thoroughly angry , but she hid it from Jean as she went on , ‘ Ling has shown us where the cakes , sandwiches and asparagus rolls are in the deep-freeze , and we know exactly when to defrost them in the microwave ovens — so why should we worry about Doreen ? ’ |