Example sentences of "the [noun] [v-ing] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 2 | There was a moment 's hesitation , then the boy 's prints were flashed up on the screen , the computer superimposing them over the others . |
| 3 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 4 | Rachel wrenched herself out of his embrace , aware of the barman watching them with an indulgent smile , as though they were lovers , not enemies . |
| 5 | They stood holding each other , the sun warming them through the window . |
| 6 | A spokesman said : ‘ The damage may have been caused by the surf dragging them over the rocks . |
| 7 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 8 | Detectives believe terror gangs have been renting flats in London and the Midlands using them as a base for operations and then moving on . |
| 9 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
| 10 | They filed downstairs , the dog following them with the air of a dog doing his duty . |
| 11 | And another quaver , those two will be tied the join taking them onto the next group of three and so on . |
| 12 | ‘ Jared , ’ said his wife in the motor returning them to the embassy , ‘ was that necessary , or wise ? ’ |
| 13 | Lindsey watched in fascination as the taxi laboriously made its way along the rising curve of the road taking them into the hills . |
| 14 | Printers began the errata business very early , for a 1478 edition of Juvenal lists mistakes on two leaves , the printer attributing them to the carelessness of a workman . |
| 15 | And the need for audience contact I found particularly important because if you get feedback from the audience looking them in the eye involving them then you 're able to know how your talk is progressing and whether you need to modify it in any way to be able to maintain the audience 's interest . |
| 16 | Eventually they became accustomed to the short trip to it by speedboat , the audience watching them from the casino . |
| 17 | Here and there the line dividing them from the parish clergy may have become blurred , for some chantry certificates claimed , in 1545 , that the cantarist was the only minister available , and generally give the impression that they regularly shared the parish duties . |
| 18 | Squeezed between the conflicting pressures from their own nobles and from the Hungarians and Venetians , and with the ever present menace of the Turks threatening them from the south , they gradually sank into oblivion . |