Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] they [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
2 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
3 | We are directly presented with them in our ordinary experience , and so must start with them in any investigation into hidden and unknown causes . |
4 | And then you say , oh I 'll ring before them before ten thirty , but you do n't say ring |
5 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
6 | If negro girls did n't wear white coats and white shoes , you 'd bump into them in dark streets ! |
7 | Paula and Louise were looking lovely too — Paula in a little white top with a boat shaped neck and a bright turquoise circular skirt , Louise in a figure hugging number which left none of her curves to the imagination — but for the first time in her life Sally felt she could compete with them on equal terms . |
8 | I said I 'd meet with them at eleven o'clock to arrange the details . ’ |
9 | Well , plenty of tourists spend their mornings in museums and picture galleries and cathedrals , and nobody would quarrel with them for that . |
10 | At the moment of its shattering hell would implode on them from all directions . |
11 | These questions are extremely difficult to answer from empirical data historically , but their importance means inevitably that I shall return to them in later chapters . |
12 | It would control referrals to providers outside the district and it would pay for them at negotiated prices . |
13 | It would also control patient referrals to providers outside the district and would pay for them at negotiated prices . |
14 | It would control referrals to providers outside the District and it would pay for them at negotiated prices . |
15 | The essential insertions will be found below , and we shall come to them in due course . |
16 | And as we shall see in the next chapter , a number of feminists would agree with them about that . |
17 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
18 | Probably their teachers will speak to them in this style , though what the learners are likely to encounter when they join in conversations with native speakers is what we have referred to previously as a ‘ rapid , casual ’ style . |
19 | Small booksellers often do n't have time to see however many reps would be calling on them ; they would much rather put all their orders together and send them to Hammicks or to Heathcote or whoever ; we will work with them on that . |
20 | At this stage we merely introduce them in passing ; we will return to them in greater detail later on . |
21 | Tell the hijackers I will talk to them in five minutes . |
22 | It allows the physical pieces of paper passed around an office to be replaced by electronic images — you can think of them as electronic photographs of the paper pages . |
23 | But the long smelly trails snaking along the branches and renewed repeatedly every night , also mark out the main highways through the tree so that , if necessary , the bush babies can scamper along them at considerable speed in the pitch blackness . |
24 | Well no , I can get er I can get what er well I , well you can go through them on that just press there |
25 | Anyone who would like to contact Roy or Linda Grainger can write to them at 9 , Roehampton Drive , Crosby . |