Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Separate the £50 , £20 , £10 , £5 , £1 notes and stack them face upwards in the same direction . |
| 2 | They lay together on the bare , splintered boards . |
| 3 | They lay together in the same blue-white room , though this time their lovemaking had been gentler and more familiar , as warmth and exploration of each other 's bodies and hearts had succeeded the glorious frenzy of their first coupling . |
| 4 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 5 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If they sit back against the jolly green juggernaut they 'll get run over — make no mistake about it . |
| 8 | Some nothing can spoil , and they grow up into the nicest young people you can imagine . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rejected in the former , they press on with the latter . |
| 11 | They apologise both for the sory and distress caused . |
| 12 | No , they say sadly to the first question ; and Yes , most definitely , to the second . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ |
| 16 | As they approach London they let down through the shining white floor of cloud into a dull grey light . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | they put her in , they put in for the higher |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Whether they break through to the next level will make interesting watching : the forthcoming exhibition and David Sylvester 's catalogue raisonné may prove influential . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I have never experienced an aggressive or bullying rasbora of any species , and they mix well in the peaceful community aquarium , swimming alongside companions from the other side of the world as easily as they integrate with their natural South East Asian cohabitants . |
| 24 | They cut right across the basic philosophy of rugby football — that is , to go forward and make ground . |
| 25 | They add little to the cultural identity of Darlington and are guilty of attracting some unsavoury characters and behaviour to the centre of the town . |
| 26 | You can change the diagram very slightly and they look just like the normal neural network . |
| 27 | They look up to the English players and try to copy them as they feel that is the right way to behave . |
| 28 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 29 | They wend off across the dully shining floor of the ballroom , heading approximately for the stairs . |
| 30 | They run parallel to the Alpine Fault , a remarkably straight transform fault representing the boundary between the Indian and Pacific Plates . |