Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do enjoy my job serving the customers because of the way some of them ask sheepishly for a jokey item , ’ says Jenny . |
| 2 | They lay together on the bare , splintered boards . |
| 3 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |
| 4 | They eat more in the Irish Republic ( 23.7kg per capita ) , which is a major beef-exporting country producing 570,000 tonnes per annum but only consuming about 84,000 tonnes at home . |
| 5 | They sit together in a non-smoking section . |
| 6 | If they sit back against the jolly green juggernaut they 'll get run over — make no mistake about it . |
| 7 | To take an extreme illustrative case , one can imagine a situation where broadly similar relationships exist between direct land-users ( pastoralists or peasants ) and other groups and the state , and they develop historically in a steep-sloped area and in a plains area nearby . |
| 8 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 9 | Sophisticated higher-level procedures must prune these perfect , accidental word matches before they combine exponentially into a huge space of alternative partial interpretations . |
| 10 | They grow opposite on a dark green , purple-tinged stem . |
| 11 | They may seem a lot , but in fact they fit easily into a single bag . |
| 12 | Our first aim , therefore , is to isolate significant typical events and units of social life and activity , and then to probe for the underlying blueprint , often implicit rather than explicit , that will show how they fit together into a meaningful pattern . |
| 13 | Work like the Peplos kore ( fig. 39 ) , Exekias 's neck-amphora ( fig. 55 ) or the Vix krater ( fig. 58 ) show archaic Greek art in its assured prime : craftsmen who are masters of their craft can develop their styles and express what they want happily within the general limitations of inherited convention . |
| 14 | They interact together in a continuous , incredibly complex and unpredictable process . |
| 15 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 16 | The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain . |
| 17 | They apologise both for the sory and distress caused . |
| 18 | In fact , these advisory councils neither have the strength conferred by expert knowledge , nor the experience of full-time work in the field , nor the responsibility conferred by direct election , but they cover up for the assumed need for some outside , popular supervision of these administrative agencies . |
| 19 | It has been said that they show up as a striking pair with powers of × 12 or more . |
| 20 | These differ from college accommodation services in that they act not for the prospective tenant but on behalf of the landlords by pre-sifting applicants . |
| 21 | They react repeatedly from the emotional life of inner reality which is immature , and not in ways appropriate to the conscious and adult appreciation of outer reality ’ |
| 22 | As they approach London they let down through the shining white floor of cloud into a dull grey light . |
| 23 | With this ghastly thought in mind , he gently suggested to Sheila that they walk over to a nice patch of grass at the base of the earth bank . |
| 24 | If Snotlings find themselves themselves further than 12″ away from a unit of Orcs or Goblins , and if they can not move to within 12″ of a unit during that movement phase , then they mill around in a confused mass . |
| 25 | As well as causing widespread damage to the fixtures and fittings of Butlin 's Somerset World where they were based they spread out over the local towns and villages , generally hooting their way around , leaving considerable wreckage in their wake . |
| 26 | The only money they put in to the chief executives and their two yearly pay re review performances that they get , for cutting other people 's wages or contracting Health Services and for somebody to have to travel that distance for a , to die , is absolutely appalling and it 's a disgrace . |
| 27 | In fact , all our theories of science are formulated on the assumption that space-time is smooth and nearly flat , so they break down at the big bang singularity , where the curvature of space-time is infinite . |
| 28 | Some principles of association that emerge are that solitary hunters feed on prey they can subdue individually which they kill suddenly after a stealthy approach . |
| 29 | They abound now at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 30 | Andy Thomson and John Price , who between them have dominated the indoor season , move outdoors today when they line up in the five-day Mazda International Singles Championship on Australia 's Gold Coast . |