Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 2 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 3 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 4 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 5 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 7 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 8 | If they know nothing upon the question , is that nothingness still to be respected ? ’ |
| 9 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 10 | Of course , if they get me on the phone , I 'm lost . |
| 11 | so it 's bad enough if they gather them in the gathering them in the barrel like , the barrel bit , but not the sort of |
| 12 | Why do n't they have a big old disaster and see if they feature it on the news |
| 13 | And I 'm sure they 'll pick them up if they see them in the |
| 14 | Does that mean they would have if they have it at the ? |
| 15 | Being a war correspondent is a genuinely dangerous job , just like they portray it in the movies . |
| 16 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 17 | I 'm sure you can appreciate that people are wary about big-city developers coming in and turning everywhere upside-down because they know nothing about the area . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , the only reason most people choose a Friday is because they get you over the weekend |
| 19 | Answer : it is a mistake to ask such questions , because they lead you into the murky borderland between history and myth , where the evidence is fragmentary and the fragments point in different directions . |
| 20 | One minute he was talking about Leeds struggling against Wimbledon because they hoof it into the air , next minute that Wimbledon do/can play some nice football , the very next statement that they always just kicked it as hard as possible into the air . |
| 21 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |
| 22 | Ask Tracey how , whether they order them by the box or whatever |
| 23 | And if they died , we us I helping my moni my Mother many at time , to wash them down , before they put them in the coffins . |
| 24 | One video is not going to stop car crime on its own , but producers believe it may persuade some young people to think twice before they find themselves on the wrong side of the law . |
| 25 | Parties must not give effect to a merger before they notify it to the Commission and for three weeks thereafter . |
| 26 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |
| 27 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 28 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 29 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 30 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |