Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 2 | The author of this memoir , while an undergraduate , once borrowed fourteen books about history from Edward Wynn and , on the way to return them , inadvertently dropped them all into the River Pem — and so is better placed than anyone to testify how good a man was Edward Wynn . |
| 3 | They have developed a sliding scale charge so that organisations can get together to take advantage of bulk ordering and so save them some of the administration expenses . |
| 4 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 5 | The wind was already driving them clear of the shore as he raised the sails . |
| 6 | For most schools , there is nothing new about this thinking : TVEI has already made them familiar with the concepts of cross-curricular dimensions ( such as equal opportunities , independent learning ) skills and competences ( such as literacy , oracy , numeracy , computer literacy , and the less obvious visual literacy ) and themes ( such as health education , careers education and guidance , environmental and economic education and — increasingly — citizenship ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I just threw them all in the bin , ’ remembers Judith , 27 , from Cambridge . |
| 8 | I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body . |
| 9 | But , in the case of the latter it has been recognised that as regards the obligation , now in section 242 , to deliver accounts and reports to the Registrar ( thus making them available to the public ) they ( like partnerships ) are entitled to exemption . |
| 10 | Well it 's boring just putting them all in the the same one , in n it ? |
| 11 | Do n't write out cheques to your adviser — always make them payable to the company you 're investing in . |
| 12 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 13 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 14 | I think it subconsciously gets them interested in the work . ’ |
| 15 | We usually have them all in the car . |
| 16 | The manors were the natural complement to Gloucester 's lordship of Sheriff Hutton and he was later to farm them both from the crown . |
| 17 | The manors were the natural complement to Gloucester 's lordship of Sheriff Hutton and he was later to farm them both from the crown . |
| 18 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 19 | Nobody would now hold them responsible for the Revolution in France , but the Encyclopedie , which Diderot inaugurated ( and edited with D'Alembert ) and to which he contributed hundreds of articles himself , undermined the authority of the regime , and argued for a re-ordering of society on rational grounds . |
| 20 | Once he even knocked them both down the stairs and sent them to bed with no dinner because they had returned with nothing . |
| 21 | Mother ! ’ almost lifted them both from the couch . |
| 22 | Put the woodlice in a small plastic box , bottle or tube to carry them home , then set them free in the pot . |
| 23 | We can then pay them direct with the possibility of obtaining a discount . |
| 24 | According to many local people , the police hold refugees without food or water for a few days , then turn them loose in the desert near the Somali or Ethiopian borders - too far for them to walk back . |
| 25 | Sandwich the top of the lining between the two layers of the tape , turning the ends over twice to bring them level with the sides of the lining ( fig. 27 ) . |
| 26 | But at the end of Day three the RAF had won again putting them level with the French at the top of the table … |
| 27 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 28 | Be , I used to bloody give them not-out by the umpire . |
| 29 | Need a the , these Fiestas , but they never get them right at the , the bloke I works with got one exactly the same as this does exactly ten miles and it cuts out on him . |