Example sentences of "[vb infin] they [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
| 2 | The last two goals are the most important , and we shall consider them further in the following sections . |
| 3 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |
| 4 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 5 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
| 6 | Maybe that 'll bring them back on the next plane . ’ |
| 7 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 8 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 9 | Although , as we saw for Pakistanis in Rochdale , the culture of immigrants may separate them out from the white community , the children of immigrants will gradually become assimilated into white society , into the wider working class and some , by upward mobility , into the middle classes . |
| 10 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 11 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 12 | They leave their civilian jobs , and instead of heading for home and a quiet night in front of the television , report in to their company bases , change into military uniform and are briefed for the night 's patrol tasks , which will take them through until the early hours of the morning , When they again become civilians . |
| 13 | One , two , three , four five six , seven , eight no one , two three , four there 's nine so we 'll probably have to take some stools in , but I wo n't take them in till the last minute . |
| 14 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 15 | Establishing these aspects initially is difficult enough , but the real headache is to maintain and apply them continuously throughout the various iterations of a changing design . |
| 16 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 17 | The Linnets are desperate for a win which would drag them away from the lower reaches of the table , and Kettering 's record of only two points from their opening eight away games suggests a home win . |
| 18 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 19 | As Henry removed his coat and set his briefcase down , Maisie 's fingers , like demented spiders in a bath , ran this way and that , in any direction , it seemed , that might lead them away from the wistful logic of the melody . |
| 20 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 21 | Councillors are angry that the police authority did not inform them earlier of the massive price hike . |
| 22 | When there were two or more people together , often one would point them out to the other , and they then quite clearly discussed them . |
| 23 | So I 'll pick them up at the next brief . |
| 24 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 25 | Yeah well you could n't put them back in the wild now . |
| 26 | The date of the Withington and Newton St. Loe mosaics remains unclear , but , on stylistic grounds the author would assign them also to the fourth century ( pace Smith 1969 , 100 ) : they are probably slightly later than the above pavements ( section 4.3 ) but almost certainly are before 340 . |
| 27 | Now that in England we pay an average of six copper pence per lemon , I think I would still find them almost worth the silver pennies which in z 533 must have represented a pretty large sum . |
| 28 | You did n't turn them on until the second part . |