Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 2 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 5 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 6 | He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber . |
| 7 | When they were n't trashing their equipment ( something which kept them occupied deep into the Seventies ) , they were trashing each other . |
| 8 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 9 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 10 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 11 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 12 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |
| 13 | The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets . |
| 14 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 15 | I 've arranged to have them transferred ashore to the local hospital . |
| 16 | She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods . |
| 17 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 18 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 19 | The two of them galloped off down the steep grass bank . |
| 20 | Separate the £50 , £20 , £10 , £5 , £1 notes and stack them face upwards in the same direction . |
| 21 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 22 | De Rose had set about it by gathering together some sixty top pilots , a sparkling galaxy of stars , many of them banded together in the famous ‘ Groupe des Cigognes ( Storks ) . ’ |
| 23 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 24 | Her voice , which had been raised , as his had been , so as to be heard while one of them walked ahead of the other , died away as they passed down the corridor , presumably en route to bed . |
| 25 | And I think we have got to let them compete competitively with the private sector , we 've got to push them further out . |
| 26 | You now have the cards with all of them facing upwards except the top one . |
| 27 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 28 | Rather it is an opportunity for them to contribute positively to the educational , social and personal support which many pupils do need but often do not receive . |
| 29 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 30 | Thus the fast process may make a permanent contribution during the sensitive period , while its influence later would adjust the cortical feature detectors , tending to make them respond most to the unusual combinations and coincidences in their input . |