Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the address of the boatyard office , where they take in the letters . " |
| 2 | Greeted by a rubbing of practised hands , the Tory Party 's celebrities take their seats before well-appointed tables where they listen to the supplications of their hosts while scrutinising the menu . |
| 3 | He had never called her that before ; nor had he ever touched her as he touched her now , his good right hand caressing both of hers where they lay atop the bedclothes . |
| 4 | Individuals may feel happier if they have a clearly specified job within the organisation and know exactly where they fit into the workings of the organisation . |
| 5 | Male black grouse or blackcocks congregate at traditional lekking sites where they compete for the attentions of the females . |
| 6 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 7 | Although they overlap with the matters discussed above , they may be characterised as having a more regulatory flavour , ensuring that the market operates according to predictable and consistent procedures , and offering a " level playing field " for participants . |
| 8 | This county council has funded them more than social services erm , for , I do n't have the figures in front of me today , but for a long time , erm , this is unlike the overwhelming majority of county councils , who spend more on social services than they do on the police . |
| 9 | As had occurred before , and was to occur again , pacifist agitators had more impact on the reorganization of the party system than they did on the issues of war and peace that they were trying to affect . |
| 10 | What they suggest is that the roots of these activities lay deep in popular or folk culture but that ultimately the new urban manifestation of these activities revealed more about the values of the business classes than they did about the masses themselves . |
| 11 | This has come about because southern politics were so dominated by the Democratic party in the century after the Civil War that many of its Senators and Representatives faced sterner re-election contests in the Primary elections within their own party ( i.e. for the right to stand for the Democrats again ) than they did against the Republicans in the election itself . |
| 12 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 13 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 14 | ‘ Provided , ’ Nicholas said , ‘ that they take in the wagons tomorrow . ’ |
| 15 | She says that they banged on the doors , and got them out . |
| 16 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 17 | Having examined how the law defines the ends for which directors must use their powers , we are now in a position to consider the law 's capacity to ensure that they act within the bounds laid down . |
| 18 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 19 | She stood shaking , setting the flaming tresses about her quivering so that they rippled in the shafts of light broken by the barrier of trees . |
| 20 | Fewer of those mergers , designed to build diversified conglomerates , were ‘ hostile ’ in the sense that they went over the heads of incumbent managers . |
| 21 | And the Christians defended themselves right well , and every time that they went upon the walls , they sounded trumpets and tambours ; and made great rejoicings , as the Cid had commanded . |
| 22 | Their important characteristic is that they cut across the divisions of the formal structure and usually are very powerful if the matters to be communicated are formally confidential or affect the future of particular individuals . |
| 23 | Three out of four PMT sufferers say that they overspend in the days before their period starts — the average ‘ blown ’ is £39 — and some women spend more than £100 , premenstrually , on unnecessary extras . |
| 24 | The wind carried the shouts of the guards away from us so that they sounded like the shouts of men drowning . |
| 25 | Managers in the companies we studied recognize that they depend on the inputs of those who know . |
| 26 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 27 | For example , many parts of the country , the South West , to some extent this area , are now finding that the benefits that they had to the rates system of people moving in after retirement after ten , fifteen , twenty years before disadvantages erm people need special hospital treatment , people need special types of accommodation and erm these are not the things that will be provided , as one of my speakers talking about hospital services said , by the private sector . |
| 28 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 29 | It is thought that they developed in the oceans , possibly as a result of chance combinations of atoms into large structures , called macromolecules , which were capable of assembling other atoms in the ocean into similar structures . |
| 30 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |