Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 2 | They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition . |
| 3 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 4 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 5 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 8 | They fly over the high peaks of the Himalayas and exist in surprising numbers on the permanent ice caps of the Poles . |
| 9 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 10 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 11 | They cut down the flowery mass |
| 12 | They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there . |
| 13 | You know in the paper when they give out the other week |
| 14 | They wink , they pout , they gobble down the complimentary potato salad . |
| 15 | Voting is compulsory , except for registered anarchists , who are allowed to abstain , provided they fill in the correct forms . |
| 16 | During certain ten-minute intervals in her parents ' front room , while they set out the filthy plates for dinner , I have achieved much … |
| 17 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 18 | Holidaymakers contemplating taking their diesel estate cars to the Dordogne or Brittany this summer would do well to wait until they drive off the cross-Channel ferry before topping up the tank . |
| 19 | Denise and Ralph Bulger talk frankly about the joy they feel over the new baby in a magazine article published tomorrow . |
| 20 | The anger of those who pay the poll tax will mount as they find out the additional amount that they must pay because their local authorities are unable to collect outstanding poll tax . |
| 21 | As enzymes they speed up the chemical reactions of life . |
| 22 | Worst of all , at least as far as Ben is concerned , they damp down the creative faculty . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 26 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If they carry out the complete installation , you pay just under £2,300 . |
| 29 | They move along the underground systems to either emerge in due course or stay tight to rabbits they have encountered . |
| 30 | Their antics as they tease out the ripe seeds in autumn are a delight . |