Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They rode at a gentle trot . |
| 32 | They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors . |
| 33 | They passed through a small station and she caught a glimpse of a couple of people standing on the windswept platform , but other than that there was nothing to see . |
| 34 | They passed through a tiny hole in its black flank and came out onto the lawn . |
| 35 | Finally , they passed into a carpeted corridor and then through a regular wooden door into a small office . |
| 36 | Queensland 's short , mild winter was slipping easily into a vibrant spring , and tropical plants and shrubs were beginning to fill the gardens they passed with a colourful bounty of flowers . |
| 37 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
| 38 | Things happened in this period that profoundly influenced sociological thinking in particular , and especially in so far as it related to crime and criminals ; they led to a comprehensive rejection of the most cherished principles of positivist criminology . |
| 39 | The statue of Moloch in Carthage had large outstretched hands for children to be placed on before they tumbled to a blazing fire below , where they would be ‘ purified ’ and blessed by that god . |
| 40 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 41 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 42 | Thirty yards back along the street they sit in a murky Cavalier . |
| 43 | If all the frogs pursue this policy , they sit in a tight clump . |
| 44 | Other birds of prey may also arouse strong responses if they sit in a conspicuous position during the daylight hours . |
| 45 | They cruised into a three-goal lead with goals by Keith Adamson ( 2 ) and Craig Fish , but two strikes from Steve Wheldon set up a nervous finish . |
| 46 | Kabbalists and Sufis were often moved by the ideas of the Jewish and Muslim rationalists , which they translated into a mystical mode . |
| 47 | In this way , they operated in a patron-client manner rather than as a united class opposing another and winning reforms through class struggle ( Galjart 1964 ) . |
| 48 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 49 | Still less at lectures which , Rosengarten recalled they avoided on a regular basis . |
| 50 | His eyes , dark and set deep beneath a firm , unfurrowed brow , were sleek and watchful ; one 's first impression that they twinkled with a friendly mirth soon vanished . |
| 51 | They racketed in a ragged chorus , never quite finding a common beat , rasping one 's nerves , but finally so familiar that when one day they stopped in a rare shower of rain , the silence was like an explosion . |
| 52 | Indeed , when the Sinhalese were short of a king in the 18th century , they drafted in a Tamil prince to start the dynasty that survived until the British moved in . |
| 53 | Instantly they plunged into a vertical nose-dive so abrupt that the bucket flew from her grasp and dropped like a stone . |
| 54 | People who live alone , especially when they suffer from a serious disability , are particularly at risk of becoming isolated and friendless , and people with long-term mental disorder are often desperately lonely and socially isolated . |
| 55 | Despite the cataclysmic statistics the demographers throw at us , families in many parts of Africa today will tell you that at certain times of the year they suffer from a severe labour shortage . |
| 56 | It 's what they mean by a mini- series . |
| 57 | And they Sought for a Better Sign from Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) , and there was a Sign ; ii . |
| 58 | After its eggs have been fertilised , they grow into a tall plant like the previous spore-producing generation . |
| 59 | These four varieties are ideal small garden plants , as they grow on a single stem and do n't need pruning . |
| 60 | It is notable that the US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area , showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both . |