Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The second and third generations ( the generations of my informants ) have not simply reproduced the class stratification of the Caribbean region , nor have they merged seamlessly into the already existing class strata of British society .
2 Braving storms and great creatures of the deep including the whale shark , they sailed hopefully for the most romantic of destinations , a coral island , and succeeded .
3 They meet regularly in the newly built Chinese community centre .
4 But as soon as they move to hearsay they lapse immediately into the purely fantastic , and the stuff of which their fantasies are constructed is lifted direct from mythology .
5 They looked just like the Dead raised to life on Judgement Day , brought out of their graves and tombs , or cast up by the sea as it dried up utterly .
6 Does he agree that when Opposition parties advocate such bodies they do so with the entirely cynical objective of maintaining the over-representation of Scotland in this House in the aftermath of the dog 's breakfast called devolution ?
7 These disbursements do not worry the senior partner in a large firm who makes £40,000 or more a year net , but they fall heavily upon the less successful .
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