Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crossing into Dutch Timor next day , they moved over the dry coral rocks and through occasional dells of trees around clear springs before reaching a Roman Catholic mission church where the priests told them of Sparrow Force 's defeat . |
| 2 | The Lears are unusual in that they live in colonies ( two are known to exist ) in North Brazil , where the natives regard them as food and not an endangered species . |
| 3 | The rule that cases should be prepared for trial by someone other than the advocate presenting them in court should not apply to solicitors , the committee said . |
| 4 | This the earls refused to do , so the king replaced them in their offices with Geoffrey de Geneville and Thomas de Berkeley respectively . |
| 5 | First , a lot of these lads had n't done very well at school , so the training provides them with a better chance of a fresh start once they have paid off their debt to society . |
| 6 | The courts , together with a wooden pavilion of historic interest , were built around 1910 but lay derelict for many years until the Club revived them with a grant from the Village Association . |
| 7 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |
| 8 | If you have set a strategy on the lines described in Chapter 7 , the way to begin to judge whether you have a good advertisement is to go to your target group , or at least a few of them , and find out if the ad affects them in the way you intended . |
| 9 | With eyes open and face smiling she appears to be unaware of the grave-clothes ; it is as if the sculptor added them against orders , his way of telling the viewer that this attractive lady was now dead . |
| 10 | If that is the case , then the only feasible way of including such shares is if the holders assent them to the scheme by separate undertakings . |
| 11 | ‘ Because the ghost says them to me . |
| 12 | In 1986 , a new Explanatory Foreword to SSAPs was issued which points out that they only apply to nationalized industries because the Government requires them to . |
| 13 | He had thought that because the Government allowed them to be on sale ‘ they must be OK ’ . |
| 14 | Well there 's no point in bringing them in-house then because the people need them at their homes |
| 15 | And we saw the religious people , the religious men , who erm are the only people that are allowed to smoke drugs , you know , illegal drugs er things like marijuana , they 're actually allowed to because the people view them as half alive and half dead and that was interesting to see . |
| 16 | The dinosaurs took over instead ; and it is tempting to suggest that the mammals failed to seize their chance precisely because the dinosaurs beat them to it : in the first encounter , if such it was , the dinosaurs won . |
| 17 | For the most part , the fast men were used in short bursts to conserve their strength and responded well to this ; but when the occasion demanded , as on the final day at Lord 's in 1963 , they could keep going for hour after hour just because the captain asked them to . |
| 18 | His Honour Judge Maddocks , dismissing their appeal , said the practice of the partnership was that of the two offices together because the partnership ran them as a single business . |
| 19 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 20 | For years they have marched , waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege . |
| 21 | After the Mirror accused them of a cover-up , they revealed that the deadly brew trickled down the outside of a hot evaporator for FIVE HOURS before alarms were triggered . |
| 22 | Paramilitary police ejected the 3,500 students from Lusaka University on April 18 after the government ordered them to be sent home and the university closed , for " political reasons " . |
| 23 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 24 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 25 | Jane Wrightson was arrested last year after officers matched her prints to stolen cheques , written by her in 1989 , after the bank sent them for analysis . |
| 26 | And tears rolled down her flushed face as Sabina helped her wash between her toes , hastily , so that the evidence should be put away before the others joined them for a piece of bread and a glass of hot milk . |
| 27 | I am obliged to smell what he smells , the baby powder , the smell of his nails before the fire spits them out-to be caught in the dish and then agonizingly reapplied to his thrilled fingertips . |
| 28 | The Israelites take this path and complete the crossing safely , but when the Egyptians pursue them along it , the walls of water collapse and drown them . |
| 29 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 30 | Ordinary citizens tolerated corruption when times were good and when the government rewarded them with cheap food , services and petrol . |