Example sentences of "they [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 2 | A successful private deal also means that creditors and shareholders have reached a voluntary consensus , which binds them in to the firm 's future health . |
| 3 | You ca n't expect her to get them in on a student 's grant . ’ |
| 4 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 5 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 6 | The rule of thumb is this when the first cluster of bubbles is fully formed , sweep them away with a bird 's wing feather . |
| 7 | Video is a good medium with which to move them away from the beginner 's preoccupation with individual words to an attempt to follow the general drift of a message . |
| 8 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 9 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 10 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 11 | We do n't just brand the cheapest tubes available , bubble pack them in pairs and hang them up on a dealer 's wall . |
| 12 | In the early days , the salesman behind the counter had served to promote the merits of different products , and to wrap them carefully for the customer 's homeward journey . |
| 13 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 14 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 15 | Erm and it was rather a a and heavy work , you had to have a team of horses to pull a load of suedes and you had to get them in Some you used to carry out on and just drag them I mean s spread them out on the field er for the store cattle and the sheep . |
| 16 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ The latest idea is to actually take them out to the hairdresser 's or shopping , so that happens every month without fail , sometimes more often . |
| 18 | We find it helpful to number modes so that we can refer to them simply in the form νsubn ; . |
| 19 | He picked up the reins in a temper and slapped them hard across the horse 's back . |
| 20 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
| 21 | ‘ I have played against them twice in the President 's Trophy and they beat us twice fairly and squarely . |
| 22 | He placed them firmly on the man 's chest and pressed the buttons . |
| 23 | Certainly it is hard to believe that bull-leapers grasped the horns , and relied on the tossing movement to get them safely over the bull 's head . |