Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 2 | There are no hotel bills , they chip in for the petrol and food and everybody 's happy . ’ |
| 3 | This is a pity , as it means that students find it harder to get their names known , and it means they lose out on a degree of publicity . |
| 4 | Obediently , resignedly , he swings the car round in a dangerous U-turn at the next intersection and they flash back towards the airport , the jewel factories and towerblocks of the Bangkok suburbs thinning out again to the dim outlines of swampy fields pierced by palmtree plantations . |
| 5 | This type of alteration is called saussuritisation , and other similar types of hydrothermal alteration can be recognised in the other igneous rocks of the igneous complex of south Harris where they crop out in the thrust zone . |
| 6 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 7 | Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation . |
| 8 | Racism poisons a lot of children 's minds — they grow up in an environment with all these images around them , in comics , newspapers , TV , films , plus everything they hear from the family or friends — they just can not help taking it in . |
| 9 | 9 Write in the names of the plants where they fit in to the pattern and draw a circle round them to indicate the extent of their final spread . |
| 10 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We have to listen to what they want out of the Association . |
| 12 | They report back to the manager on the progress of the batches . |
| 13 | They cry out for the magic of the modern movies . |
| 14 | If these lines come into contact with others of ‘ foreign ’ material such as a polyester , then they melt through in a trice and your kite is away , floating down on the breeze leaving you with two rather expensive short ends . |
| 15 | Then , as one , they slink back into the darkness , seeking privacy and safety in the womb of the undercut . |
| 16 | In the case of policemen at Easton , this sport is situationally constrained by the common-sense knowledge they build up of the court room setting and its players . |
| 17 | The abnormal proteins produced by these degenerative diseases are relatively indigestible , so they build up in the lysosome . |
| 18 | For most Americans , it is simply what they fly over on the way to either coast . |
| 19 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 20 | Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response . |
| 21 | " Were it not for what they receive out of the tax … they would not knit or spin for so small wages , as they receive for that work , because they would starve by it . " |
| 22 | The trouble is that it I know , I say I 'm going on about have n't got a copper and everything , then they walk up to the bar and pull out a great wad of notes |
| 23 | They walk round from the school and they 've got a map of the places where the bombs dropped so |
| 24 | Picture them , Tabitha Jute and Marco Metz , as they walk out across the spaceport tarmac this chilly Schiaparelli evening , to climb aboard the not-quite-redeemed Alice and take off into the Martian sky , bound on a journey that will take them to Plenty — and far , far beyond . |
| 25 | These days I forget what I prescribe and what people have got when they walk out of the surgery . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , you can ‘ But , Daddy ’ at me all you like — it 's not going to bring you , or any of those amadans mocking the poor guard , back to life when they walk out under a ten-ton truck . ’ |
| 27 | When they spot some promising zebras , or antelopes , they spread out into a line . |
| 28 | Here I feel awake and ready , compelled to be on my feet when the sun reaches us , and the cattle , fretful and peckish , are released in a torrent of bay and brown and white , their huge horns gradually unlocking and separating as they spread out into the plain . |
| 29 | As soon as more advanced types evolved in response to a stimulating environment , they spread out around the world , driving earlier , more primitive forms into marginal locations where they were able to survive for some time before extinction . |
| 30 | They spread out from the Thing like a tide ; panels lit up like little skies full of stars , big lights in the ceiling flickered on , there was a distant banging and fizzing as electricity was woken up , and the air began to smell of thunderstorms . |