Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb base] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry . |
| 2 | Originally it was thought to give better protection to the crew ejecting at high speed and provide them with a ‘ shirt-sleeve ’ environment . |
| 3 | Alternatively , enclose in clean , clear polythene bags or cover with cling film to prevent moisture loss and stand them in a warm place . |
| 4 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 5 | Wiggly santolina , rosemary and clipped lavender provide evergrey foliage , but wrap pots in hessian and move them to a sheltered corner to protect these Mediterranean plants against the coldest weather . |
| 6 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 7 | ‘ The owner of the castle would put his family into a boat and row them across the lake to church every Sunday . |
| 8 | But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast . |
| 9 | Security police snatched away members of the 1,000-strong march and beat them about the head with truncheons as the crowd chanted ‘ No violence ’ and ‘ We 're staying here ’ . |
| 10 | To eliminate the problems of prostitution , they sometimes take the women from the cell , put them in an ambulance and drive them over the border to Honduras . |
| 11 | Before a non-dominant class can become the dominant class it has to ‘ give its ideas the form of universality and represent them as the only rational universally valid ones ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 66 ) . |
| 12 | No , I mean , oven chips you can just put them on the tray and bung them in the oven . |
| 13 | As Maggie took the things from the tray and set them on the table she said , ‘ I know what you 're thinking : we 're slightly barmy . ’ |
| 14 | They had crossed the market , the shopping centre , passed the churches , chapels , religious meeting rooms , fighting to outdo each other and against the countless bars ; even hoping through the wave of religious revival , and the example set by the Queen herself , that they would eventually withdraw sinners from the flames of hell-fire and place them in the arms of the Lord . |
| 15 | Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine . |
| 16 | I dig a hole with the hand trowel and pop them under the courgette together with the hands , feet and eyes ( which I 'd already collected ) . |
| 17 | Only the family historian can charter some of these kaleidoscopic patterns of mobility and reduce them to an understandable human scale . |
| 18 | 6 When the icing is dry , thread ribbon through the hole in the top of each cookie and hang them on the tree . |
| 19 | First clear the six flat rocks from your plot and drop 'em in the tip . |
| 20 | Theodora took a couple of handfuls of the chicken pellets from the split bag in the hall and broadcast them over the gravel . |
| 21 | Her husband Harold was a lamplighter and when he came home from work he was obliged to take off his boots in the passage and place them on a sheet of newspaper before entering the inner sanctum . |
| 22 | Speechless with weary anger , she cut herself two crooked slices of bread and put them under the grill . |
| 23 | For a high-tea or supper meal spread smoked haddock paste on fingers of hot toast and arrange them in a circle around a dish of scrambled eggs . |
| 24 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
| 25 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
| 26 | Basically they do the same job , that is they break down the structure of the hair and reset them with a neutraliser , but are made without animal testing , contain naturally derived ingredients and are biodegradable . |
| 27 | Look for rollers that are kind to hair and use them with a gentle setting lotion |
| 28 | She disinterred two frozen TV dinners from the big freezer in the basement and put them into the oven to heat . |
| 29 | We used to hunt rats in the basement and put them in the traps , when I was a lad . ’ |
| 30 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |