Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 2 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 3 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 4 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 5 | Barclays Bank is one of the cheapest widely-available sources of travellers ' cheques , charging 1 p.c. to issue them with a minimum fee of £2 . |
| 6 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 7 | The second key let them into a vaulted stone cellar , and groping torch in hand along the far wall behind the piled casks of wine , Thomas brushed the cobwebs from a low , insignificant door . |
| 8 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 9 | A heavy door swung open and a figure beckoned them into a warm lozenge of light . |
| 10 | Sandwiched between them are Gloucester who lost their 100 per cent record at Saracens , the London club holding them to a 12–12 draw . |
| 11 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 12 | His Honour Judge Maddocks , dismissing their appeal , said the practice of the partnership was that of the two offices together because the partnership ran them as a single business . |
| 13 | The aim was that as a greater number of the population became eligible for national insurance benefits , fewer people would be dependent on the safety net of national assistance to provide them with a minimum income . |
| 14 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 15 | If they are purchased through a large department store , the shop will send an expert to fix them for a small extra charge . |
| 16 | And from that day to this , no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden , for El-ahrairah prompts them with a thousand tricks , the best in the world . " |
| 17 | Then another child sorted them in a different way . |
| 18 | ( Phoebe ) Bradley became the first lady to serve on the Club Committee , an event doubly unique , for although not a bondholder she was elected by their Committee to represent them for a four-year term . |
| 19 | By the end of the century they were dividing its work betwen them in a systematic and efficient way . |
| 20 | Then he organised a coach to bring them to a new life in Britain . |
| 21 | If possible try to frame them in a dramatic way — because this is a further pointer for the children showing how you are going to work together . |
| 22 | Firstly , although Wessel ( 1797 ) and Argand ( 1806 ) had tried to make complex numbers a little more respectable by showing how to interpret them , their addition and multiplication geometrically , there remained , possibly because of doubts concerning the intuitive use of geometrical arguments , the desire to put them on a firmer basis . |
| 23 | Pupils may enrol in S4 : the fee entitles them to a comprehensive set of aptitudes and interest tests which is followed by a detailed personal report and interview with careers suggestions ; attendance at careers courses ; a careers magazine several times a year , etc .. |
| 24 | Preference dividends can be accumulated if there are not sufficient distributable profits or cash to pay them in a particular financial year whereas , as noted above , loan stock obligations are a contractual commitment and must be paid whether the offeror makes profits or not . |
| 25 | Samuel begged the company 's indulgence as chairman elect to entertain them with a short piece in Sir Thomas 's absence . |
| 26 | Britain had beaten Poland 4-3 in the World Championships Pool B in Eindhoven earlier this year , and the loss of a point leaves them with a formidable task against tournament favourites Latvia and Slovakia next week , with only one team qualifying for Lillehammer . |
| 27 | This case reduces them to a single principle , the ‘ neighbour principle ’ , which emerges as part of the ratio decidendi of the case . |
| 28 | Apart from conventional protests , Greenpeace mountaineers scaled the twin 350-foot towers of a nearby power station to straddle them with a giant banner . |
| 29 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
| 30 | She felt a pang of gratitude , remembering his generous offer to provide them with a month-long Sardinian holiday , not only on their anniversary this year , but every single year to come . |