Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 2 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 3 | Sometimes rain lashed the tarred roofs of the huts until they glistened like the skin of a seal . |
| 4 | On the one hand there were those introduced by British or British trained educationists because they appeared at the time to represent the ‘ best ’ education ( though naturally criteria for judging quality varied widely ) . |
| 5 | They clearly have social , economic and political ramifications and affect man 's relationship with his fellow man : all men are brothers because they partake of the same reality and share the same Ātman . |
| 6 | This particular problem also exists for statistical methods since they sample from the language and assume a reliable distribution . |
| 7 | This particular problem also exists for statistical methods since they sample from the language and assume a reliable distribution . |
| 8 | This time around , Chadwick 's approach to recording the album was to spend as much time as possible rehearsing and re-rehearsing the songs before they went into the studio . |
| 9 | Crusaders are also pondering their first Euro headache — two months before they go into the UEFA Cup draw . |
| 10 | Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence . |
| 11 | The day had turned unseasonably cold and cloudy , and they were glad of their overcoats as they trudged along the windy streets . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , master , ’ she muttered , glaring at his bronzed legs as they disappeared through the hatch . |
| 13 | So John Davies and Simon Green of the University of Leicester have collaborated with the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in Britain to look for fast-moving objects in IRAS signals as they arrive from the laboratory 's receiving station in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | From the response of these waves as they travel through the Earth it is possible to build up a general picture of the properties of its interior . |
| 15 | He held onto his back as they leapt from shelf to shelf and soon he no longer had to shut his eyes as they flew through the air . |
| 16 | Holly saw the blackened uniforms of the guards as they moved amongst the debris of the office that they had retrieved . |
| 17 | The pair became used to the waves and hoots from passing motorists , trucks and even train drivers as they journeyed to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 18 | Fierce Eyes and his mother used nets to catch them , stamping on their heads as they struggled in the loose , confining space . |
| 19 | A police constable was injured as bottles and other missiles were thrown at 300 British National Party supporters as they arrived for the rally in York Hall , Bethnal Green . |
| 20 | He stayed on the wrong side of the road , followed the tracks recently made by the police cars as they drove through the snow . |
| 21 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 22 | What was the true intention of the parties when they arrived at the agreement pleaded by the defendants in para. 5 of the amended defence ? |
| 23 | The descriptions of their hallucinatory images as they lay at the foot of Lawrence 's grave are too visual and complicated to do justice to and are no longer relevant , anyway . |
| 24 | She began to feel a little differently , though when less than an hour later they entered Ven 's hotel suite and as she turned , about to give him her polite but none the less sincere thanks as they halted in the middle of the room , Ven looked down at her and got in first with , ‘ Are you tired ? ’ |
| 25 | The Aboriginal legends maintain that most of the underground water-courses were created by the mythical snakes as they travelled across the country . |
| 26 | These issues will be explored by following a sample of pupils in three schools as they move through the final four years of compulsory education . |
| 27 | I joined a group of five Frenchmen as they got onto the sunken road leading to the orchard . |
| 28 | Control of the workforce was therefore formal and impersonal , often reflecting the tone of class relationships as they existed in the wider rural society . |
| 29 | They can track shoplifters as they walk through the city . |
| 30 | The upper image shows part of the soma and dendrites as they emerge into the plane of the optical section . |