Example sentences of "they [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When , and only when , the paper and the paint have completely dried , I emphasise the highlights by rubbing over them gently with a typewriter eraser , the variety which can be sharpened to a point to increase accuracy .
2 When , and only when , the paper and the paint have completely dried , I emphasise the highlights by rubbing over them gently with a typewriter eraser , the variety which can be sharpened to a point to increase accuracy .
3 This seems to them more like a building site than a City office .
4 I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle .
5 The canonising of many of these into ‘ sainthood ’ , and its corresponding condition within non-Christian religions puts them temporarily into a surrogate position relative to the Created God , which is similar to that into which Jesus Christ may be put .
6 If we sign an act without a record contract , we develop their music and their image so we can present them favourably to a record company . ’
7 She washed a Cos lettuce , leaf by leaf , then patted each of them carefully with a tea towel .
8 At this time of year cuttings wilt rapidly , so pop them straight into a polythene bag and prepare them as soon as possible .
9 We had the Astounding Reg Atkins who can juggle 12 empty bottles and then toss them accurately into a bottle bank from a distance of 30 feet so that the green , brown and clear bottles go into the correct holes .
10 So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats .
11 What amazed me was the space — long stretches of beautiful beach with just a handful of people on them even on a Bank Holiday .
12 She had completely forgotten they were looking for Garry — she had them deep in a holiday romance .
13 As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing .
14 Any artist should seek out those people who can get them closer to a record company . ’
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