Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] they [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the young owls had fledged , he said that we might expect to find them anywhere in the area , and that the best idea was for us to fan out and scan the branches . |
| 2 | You must have disturbed them right in the act . " |
| 3 | The manipulations performed may include arithmetic operations on some of these character strings , but we will probably wish to do them directly on the decimal digits , rather than convert to and from binary for each arithmetic operation . |
| 4 | We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway . |
| 5 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 6 | By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky . |
| 7 | You may have included words that do n't fit , and you may want to remove them immediately from the list , so as to avoid confusion when you check . |