Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 2 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 3 | It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state . |
| 4 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 5 | The drive was tree-lined , so they went down the farther side , only visible now and then . |
| 6 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 7 | Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall . |
| 8 | ‘ Individually , they are very nice children , ’ says John , ‘ but put them together and they bring out the worse in each other — like football supporters . ’ |
| 9 | And they build up the old . |
| 10 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 11 | Biological systems tend to normally pick up a particular isomer in most cases , if they pick up the wrong one it will affect , for example the protein chain it will affect , ultimately , its three dimensional structure and therefore , it 's function . |
| 12 | If they carry out the complete installation , you pay just under £2,300 . |
| 13 | Voting is compulsory , except for registered anarchists , who are allowed to abstain , provided they fill in the correct forms . |
| 14 | Holidaymakers contemplating taking their diesel estate cars to the Dordogne or Brittany this summer would do well to wait until they drive off the cross-Channel ferry before topping up the tank . |
| 15 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 16 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 17 | Yeah but , like you say that the to find , to find out the real truth you have to refer to Hebrew anyway because they found out the sacred secret of God did n't they ? |
| 18 | During certain ten-minute intervals in her parents ' front room , while they set out the filthy plates for dinner , I have achieved much … |
| 19 | Arsenal 's slump since they took over the Premier League leadership on November 7 has been startling , but Graham admitted : ‘ I do n't even think about winning the title . |
| 20 | Well , nowadays , since they brought out the new law I think lesbian women and single women are being discriminated against because they see there 's some erm mythical er need for there to be a father figure around . |
| 21 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 22 | They tried to kill her and her Cabinet , and nearly succeeded , when they blew up the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative Party conference . |
| 23 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 24 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 25 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 26 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 27 | You know in the paper when they give out the other week |
| 28 | The British Lions were amused to read of the plight of referee Steve McNally when they picked up the local paper in Paihia before the first match of their New Zealand tour . |
| 29 | But until lately very few people had managed to make themselves heard when they pointed out the dramatic effect of all previous philosophers having seen it as that of a man — that is , of course , not an exact reflection of what men are like , but an image of how they tend to see themselves when they contrast themselves with women . |
| 30 | They may have come upon documents relating to their early life when they cleared out the dead parents ' papers . |