Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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1 | They say he walked to the centre of the Sun Chamber , and that as he did so , the disguise fell from him , and everyone saw him for what he really was . |
2 | But when they die they sink to the bottom , taking the nutrients with them . |
3 | They have found that algae are thriving on nutrients from sewage , farm runoff and factory waste : when they die they drift to the bottom and consume the available oxygen ; water hyacinths clog the shallows , reducing the light and oxygen reaching the area where many of the native fish species live ; in the past the fish acted as a check on the algae , but more than 400 species have disappeared in recent years ; one culprit is considered to be the Nile perch , a large fish introduced in the 1950s . |
4 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
5 | This may prove difficult if they have you pinned to the wall . |