Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 2 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 3 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
| 4 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 5 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 6 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 7 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 8 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 9 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 10 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
| 11 | Having educated our clients in relation to the psychology and physiology of anxiety , the next step is to help them break any patterns of avoidance that may have become established . |
| 12 | Two men sat at a table near the counter , one of them pushing huge forkfuls of food into his mouth , the other sipping at a cup of tea . |
| 13 | There were days when the leaders of the band refused to let them light any kind of fire in case German patrols found them and yet they somehow still had to produce food that the men could eat . |
| 14 | The men in the Toms family support each other a great deal ; none of them show any disapproval of Sandy 's lifestyle . |
| 15 | Oh , the blancmange of a conductress bites and wrenches pieces of nail from her fingertips and is well schooled in this art , making them like embryonic heads of pre-life . |
| 16 | After the return of right masculine rule from the tyranny of the Amazons , Artegall meets with Prince Arthur and the two of them accomplish various overthrowing of tyrannies . |
| 17 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 18 | The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way . |
| 19 | It does seem a pity that no one has bothered to look at the actual behaviour of the children in question in relation to such practices as might lead them to encounter greater dangers of lead pollution ; the almost entire absence of psychologists among the medical and other experts engaged in this research may account for their overlooking a very obvious alternative hypothesis . |
| 20 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 21 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 22 | I assure the House that , in all the speeches that I have made at police meetings and conferences this year , I have repeatedly stressed to the police that I want them to give this type of crime high priority . |
| 23 | Rick tried to ensure their involvement by inviting each of them to contribute one unit of activities to the year 's scheme of work . |
| 24 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 25 | The others include Western Areas , H. J Joel , South Deep and Lindum which between them produce 51.7 tons of gold . |
| 26 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 27 | Most of them use small sets of rules about what constitutes an affix which can safely be removed , and any stem " normalization " which may thereafter be needed to achieve conflation ( e.g. , " absorption " — " absorb " " travelling " — " travel " ) . |
| 28 | And it is men and women , people on low income and children , you know your , so bear in mind your own children and grandchildren , if they have n't got income up to three four four five , tell them to watch this deduction of tax from banks or building societies . |
| 29 | it was , it was Romana 's mum and dad , I think they owned that row of houses and the shop |
| 30 | ‘ They owned this kind of enclave on the coast just outside Ajaccio — like a kind of tourist village — that 's where they kept the women , really , while they were away on business . |