Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the greater urban houses , they spread out into the more rural areas . |
| 2 | They meet regularly in the newly built Chinese community centre . |
| 3 | In the latter , agents are organizationally rewarded by how well they measure up to the relatively concrete criteria provided by the enforcement process . |
| 4 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | They burst in on the somewhat startled signalman who was puzzled by the dramatic appearance of the two familiar faces . |
| 9 | 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 . |