Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 2 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 3 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 4 | To follow the close-up of the pre-headed letter , the first shot should show all the performers together to establish them in the setting . |
| 5 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 6 | The capital was large enough to provide them with the anonymity they badly needed . |
| 7 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 8 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 9 | It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd rather be doing it on my own , ’ Maria responded waspishly , taking advantage of the fact that no one was near enough to overhear them for the moment . |
| 11 | When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses . |
| 12 | We recognise that those who live and work in the vicinity of our plants have the right to know about our activities and we are doing our very best to provide them with the information they require . |
| 13 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 14 | ‘ But we do n't want him just to put them into a cupboard ? ’ |
| 15 | Well I said it , told you to get some just to put them in the garage when it 's hot . |
| 16 | Those that had children struggled desperately to keep them within the state school system and also to see the frequent failures of others to succeed in this as being somehow a rather nasty disease , with compassion and sorrow the appropriate response , rather than the fierce bell-like anger they would all have produced reflexively only ten years before . |
| 17 | Through the Princes ' Trust in the month we actually give grants to something like twenty people , just to get them off the street , because there was nowhere else they could turn to . |
| 18 | Apricot are actually sending their prospective dealers on a two day up-front training course just to familiarise them with the market and what it is likely to entail . |
| 19 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 20 | And Mr Robinson explained : ‘ The meeting was called to let the fans have their say and also to put them in the picture . |
| 21 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help self-employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |
| 22 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |
| 23 | In order to get a response in subject searching , the user has had not only to specify his needs but also to specify them in a way that " matches " the system . |
| 24 | To do this requires some ability to acknowledge and manage one 's own infantile feelings rather than inflexibly to project them into the other . |
| 25 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 26 | Be here to collect them in an hour . |
| 27 | The Neanderthals were , however , physically weaker , and so it was ‘ reasonable ’ to wipe them out , or at least to subjugate them to the extent that eventually they died out . |
| 28 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 29 | However , it does mean that if you want to knit a row of motifs changing the motif colour , then to knit them with the colour changer you need to re-punch the card in reverse . |
| 30 | I know we 're not inviting anybody for lunch Christmas day could n't cope with that but it would be quite to have them in the afternoon ca n't cope with the people ! |