Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe that if the Institute were to make one of its inspections , it would not find anything to give them cause for concern over the way in which we have conducted our professional work , ’ Ms Harris says . |
| 2 | They jerk in surrender to the pulse of Fole 's hammerskins , the tremulous yodelling of Tumblejack 's voice . |
| 3 | JUST WHAT Arsenal might have achieved in Europe this season must remain a matter for speculation , but as they sit on top of the Premier League today manager George Graham insists on thinking ahead rather than looking back . |
| 4 | Instead they send to Shiloh for the ark . |
| 5 | They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed . |
| 6 | As the above example shows , they depend in part on the context of the interaction . |
| 7 | Trent 's an obnoxious , contrary bugger at the best of times , as the lyrical concerns show — in between the obligatory expletives , they range from hate through the sub-Nietzschian ideas of cultural slavery and , well , back to hate again . |
| 8 | They range in size from the small corner shop ( like the one on Coronation Street ) to huge hypermarkets like Asda and Tesco . |
| 9 | There is , then , a reciprocal relationship between grammar and lexis : they act in concert in the discharge of their semantic duties . |
| 10 | They roar with laughter at the funny bits . |
| 11 | They function in spite of the system , only because of the enormous professional devotion of their staffs . |
| 12 | And they er adopted a scheme last year when they cut off part of the high street from traffic . |
| 13 | They tune into satellite for the extra choice , not the quality of programmes . |
| 14 | They vary in capacity from the hand held 2 litre version to the back-pack mounted 25 litre sprayer . |
| 15 | They vary in strength from the sophisticated First World centres , through important Third World cities , like Cairo and Mexico City , to nominal presences in some of the poorer African and Asian countries . |
| 16 | They seem to date from the early sixth century , and while some are pure Greek others are almost purely oriental : a late phase of ‘ orientalising ’ . |
| 17 | And you know them and you see them when they look like shit in the morning and you see their |
| 18 | The children like this part , when the mermaid comes back to life , they quiver with pleasure at the strong magic of it . |
| 19 | It is the day when they stand in imagination at the foot of the Cross to witness the judicial murder of Christ , to remember their own failings and to anticipate the holiday — literally the holy day — for which they have prepared throughout Lent : the day on which they believe Christ rose from the dead . |
| 20 | So fish are aware of the popply , slapping noises that other fish make as they travel at speed through the water , of the clicks made by crustaceans snapping their hard shells and the scrapings made by fish grazing over the coral . |
| 21 | Specialists believe that the clicking and popping sounds made by a school of females may be the best way to rescue the six sperm whales before they starve to death in the enclosed natural harbour . |
| 22 | The inlays are mother-of-pearl and perhaps a trifle unusual in how they diminish in size up the neck … |
| 23 | They get signed , they get arm-wrestled into spending too much money on their records , they get into debt to the record company , they spend 18 months trying to get out of it , it does n't work and the band breaks up . |
| 24 | Most of the youngsters know him by name and he is often called to Hendon police station when they get into trouble with the law . |
| 25 | In earlier decades — say , from the 1950s to the 1970s — most but not all college students were secondary school-leavers — now called " traditional students ' because they arrive at college via the traditional route from school . |
| 26 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 27 | For this reason it is important that all of the calves on any farm should be vaccinated whether they go to pasture in the spring or later in the year . |
| 28 | The vaccination programme for dairy calves should , if possible , be completed before they go to grass in the spring or early summer . |
| 29 | And that 's the case with inner and outer , They are perhaps more fundamentally different er in some respects that than than other options for an outer where they go for example on the western where they 're totally outside , I would accept that . |
| 30 | Now they 've got pride of place in homes throughout the United Kingdom and this weekend they go on show at the Billing Aquadrome near Northampton . |