Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |
| 2 | Would they have switched off the cold fountains in Trafalgar Square ? |
| 3 | They go to business school , read management books and consult consultants as they try to work out the correct equation . |
| 4 | They love chucking out the old to buy new and will almost pay people to take it away . |
| 5 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 6 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 7 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 8 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 9 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 10 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 11 | Mark 's compensation and pension terms would be spelt out to him by New York within the next two weeks , after they had checked out the maximum terms permissible under British law . |
| 12 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 13 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 14 | Certain they had bottled up the Australian patrol , the Japanese searched the town house by house next day , but Laidlaw and his men were long gone . |
| 15 | It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs . |
| 16 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 17 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 18 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 19 | By the time they had splashed up the far bank Nathaniel Sherman was fifty yards away , moving erratically , breasting the grass , preparing to risk a standing shot at two hundred yards . |
| 20 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
| 21 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 22 | They had walked up the worn stone staircase , arm in arm , with their beautiful girl child dancing around them . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , in some cases photocopies look better than the original because they help smooth out the jagged edges of curves and fill in the gaps between the dots to make the letters look more solid . |
| 24 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 25 | Here they have sought out the well-oxygenated water where the streamer weed grows thick and the natural food breeds in profusion . |
| 26 | They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants . |
| 27 | They have taken over the unfinished Bristol Babe project ( BAPC.87 ) held by the Hemswell Aviation Society . |
| 28 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 29 | ‘ The company claims there may be room to manoeuvre but they have spelled out the bottom line and that is 229 jobs in Birkenhead and 66 in Litherland . |
| 30 | They have drawn out the magical circle simply to trap the adventurers , when they saw them approaching the area . |