Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , outputting them at 300dpi meant making some sacrifices so Adobe build in a mechanism for improving the shapes of the characters at low resolution , the technique is called hinting , and to protect their investment they encrypted both the typefaces and the hinting method so that the faces would only work properly with their own version of PostScript . |
| 2 | In the end , whether applicants have their experiential learning counted in the admissions process , or whether students go on expanding the degree of influence they exercise over the curriculum , will be up to them . |
| 3 | So extracting his fireman they went down the yard and got onto 4913 . |
| 4 | Er and all of a sudden they brought out the catalogue right ? |
| 5 | When a circus comes to town they send in the stars … so who better than Desert Orchid to lead the festival parade into Cheltenham … |
| 6 | In the process they open up the soil , often extracting mineral salts from great depths . |
| 7 | There is a marked difference in colour between the dusty grey-brown of these mounds and the bright , light blue colour they spread over the vineyards . |
| 8 | On the seventh day they march around the city seven times . |
| 9 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 10 | There are no provisions for nomination but subcontractors may be named in which case they become entirely the contractor 's responsibility . |
| 11 | the little bit they gave out the Longbridge train then they said oh know the twelve O six |
| 12 | The warders and the trusties from Internal Order are at the doors of the huts , and the zeks are pitched out into the night darkness and spill to the perimeter path , and like an ant trail they wind around the compound for what is classified as Exercise . |
| 13 | When the police and security forces ordered the protesters to leave a wide street near the Gethsemane Church they drowned out the order by chanting ‘ We are the people ! |
| 14 | In silence they passed down the grandness of Whitehall , hemmed in by the blank facades of bureaucracy , ministries where men and women toiled in cold obscurity . |
| 15 | Well I thought the sa I mean eve that last thing they did there the Starlight Express thing , I did n't have a clue what that was about . |
| 16 | In April that year she married William Arbuthnot and during their honeymoon they walked up the Schilthorn from Murren , accompanied by a guide . |
| 17 | In the introduction they outline how the encounter with postmodern theory has literally expanded and diversified the discourses of feminist art historians producing what they define as ‘ neo-Marxist ’ , ‘ constructivist ’ and ‘ poststructuralist ’ accounts in addition to their own ‘ liberal feminist ’ project . |
| 18 | I like the way they splice on their headstocks ( almost invisibly underneath the headstock facing ) but not the way they make up the depth of the heel with a very different-coloured piece of mahogany — although I suppose some people might . |
| 19 | The charm of this series will be the little things that they have got precisely right , like the way they shout out the answers on blockbusters or coyly ask about women they adore . |
| 20 | On the evidence available from their thorough training sessions and the way they brushed aside the challenge from a truly competitive outfit here , it is hard to see these All Blacks returning home as ‘ failures ’ . |
| 21 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 22 | The way they joke about their LP going to 207 ‘ with an anchor ’ , the way they break down the myths of the American Dream and the Troubles back home … |
| 23 | There is plenty for you to watch : the way they feed , the way they cluster around the queen , the way they look after their eggs and grubs ( larvae ) , the development of the larvae into adult ants . |
| 24 | Is n't it time they gave up the game and settled into cosy , post-stude domesticity ? |
| 25 | A Some flame-effect fires do tend to send most of the heat they produce up the chimney — sometimes as much as 85 per cent . |
| 26 | In fact they lick up the nectar by flicking their tongues rapidly into the flower , in the case of hummingbirds as swiftly as thirteen times a second . |
| 27 | Again , the two TV programmes I mentioned give plenty of evidence of the power they exercise over the lives of thousands upon thousands . |