Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 2 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 3 | They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition . |
| 4 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 5 | They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made . |
| 6 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 7 | They fly over the high peaks of the Himalayas and exist in surprising numbers on the permanent ice caps of the Poles . |
| 8 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 9 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 10 | Voting is compulsory , except for registered anarchists , who are allowed to abstain , provided they fill in the correct forms . |
| 11 | During certain ten-minute intervals in her parents ' front room , while they set out the filthy plates for dinner , I have achieved much … |
| 12 | Main boomed out to port , genoa to starboard , they ghosted up the smooth waters of the river like a giant white butterfly as the first grey touch of dawn lightened the sky . |
| 13 | But Mr Riley argued that the parking on Hollyhurst Road was not a hazard to pedestrians who had to cross between parked cars instead they slowed down the speeding cars . |
| 14 | The engine of the bus protested bitterly and the close air filled with the heavy smell of petrol as they started up the steep brae . |
| 15 | ‘ Some say they brought back the wrong ashes , and that is n't Yeats there at all . |
| 16 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 17 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 18 | They took over the statutory duties and provisions of the old mental health departments . |
| 19 | As enzymes they speed up the chemical reactions of life . |
| 20 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 21 | When it comes to joining groups , they weigh up the personal benefits they might receive from the existence of a successful group protecting the interest they share with others . |
| 22 | The finished case is thrown upon the floor ; the long narrow strip which is to form the frame of the drawer is laid upon the bright strip of ready-pasted paper , then bent together and joined by an overlapping bit of paper ; the edges of paper below are bent flat , the ready-cut bottom is dropped in and pressed down and before the fingers are withdrawn they fold over the upper edges of the paper inside the top . |
| 23 | Well wha what he said was he went up there there 's erm could they put on the front wheels to the back and the back wheels to the front did n't say anything the bloke said , well we ca n't charge you . |
| 24 | They move along the underground systems to either emerge in due course or stay tight to rabbits they have encountered . |
| 25 | They may have come upon documents relating to their early life when they cleared out the dead parents ' papers . |
| 26 | Their antics as they tease out the ripe seeds in autumn are a delight . |
| 27 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 28 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
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