Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] they [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says the countryside brings in tourists and the attractions teach them more about the countryside . |
| 2 | In an entire lunch-hour , those same members may produce only half a dozen verbal transactions between them , yet a multitude of non-verbal signals binds them together in a group . |
| 3 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 4 | They are more like shadows in the forest which enable us to see the contour of the trees to bring them together as the forces of darkness is to obliterate both the wood and the trees . |
| 5 | Cos he had all the jockeys , the jockeys , no racing on a Sunday and he had jockeys to ride them instead of the boys in the stable . |
| 6 | Then they would suddenly all rise up as one , their great wings sweeping them rhythmically over the water , their legs stretched behind them , thousands of them flying above that great lake . |
| 7 | Whereas the vertical combs of honey-bees have cells on both sides , the paper-wasp 's horizontal combs have them only on the under-surface . |
| 8 | Both beauties have refused offers to team them together in a film since neither wants to be upstaged . |
| 9 | The canonising of many of these into ‘ sainthood ’ , and its corresponding condition within non-Christian religions puts them temporarily into a surrogate position relative to the Created God , which is similar to that into which Jesus Christ may be put . |
| 10 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 11 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 12 | Five youths were arrested after police spotted them outside with the 3ft high mascot . |
| 13 | One of the major themes of the 1980s was the decentralisation of services to make them closer to the public . |
| 14 | Thereafter an employee is rotated through several sections or jobs making them more of a generalist rather than a specialist in one skill . |