Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the far side they followed the river about a mile downstream until they reached the same narrow point where the temporary bridge is constructed every year . |
| 2 | The celebratory boom of cannon echoing from another part of the citadel marked the end of the ceremony and the emperor descended slowly from his throne to shake hands in European fashion with the Resident Superior , and side by side they led the way into an antechamber . |
| 3 | And from somewhere on the other side they heard the sound they all dreaded : HAR-ROOMF ! |
| 4 | As a first experiment they improved the lighting for the test group and were pleased to find that productivity improved , but puzzled to find that productivity also improved in the control group . |
| 5 | After checking this balancing they increased the current further to three times the starting value , and discovered an excess heat output of ten per cent over and above what they could account for going in . |
| 6 | The DJ they call the Hairy Monster 's a little greyer than he once was , but he insists he 's starting an important new phase of his career . |
| 7 | At first Peter 's parents thought he was still suffering from a recent bout of whooping cough , but when he started a second bottle of C-vit they noticed the drink had fermented , turning some of the juice into alcohol . |
| 8 | The goldsmiths noticed that a large proportion of the gold was not withdrawn from the vaults and as a result they seized the opportunity of making profits by granting loans through the issue of ‘ receipts ’ in excess of actual gold deposits . |
| 9 | And as a result they have the self-confidence which comes from knowing that if you have made it once , you can make it again . |
| 10 | Today and in the future they regard the borders of all states in Europe as inviolable as they stand on the day of the signing of this treaty . |
| 11 | They show very clearly that the Government are ensuring that , while we may reduce the personnel numbers in our armed forces , we are increasing the relative proportion of funds spent on their equipment to ensure that in the future they have the equipment that they need to perform the tasks that we set them . |
| 12 | When the police stopped the car they found the seals in the bag . |
| 13 | He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore . |
| 14 | They drew off as best they might to lie in hiding until nightfall and lick their wounds ; and in the dark they crossed the river by the ford at Buttington and went to earth with their defeat and their chagrin in the forest under the ridge of Gungrog Fawr . |
| 15 | However , to the outsider they obscure the chemistry involved and inhibit the cross-fertilisation of ideas from one area to another . |
| 16 | We noticed that quite often if people ate the sandwich they left the cake , or vice versa , so when we used to collect the trays from them we would take whatever was left . |
| 17 | When they appeared in the dock they constituted the largest number of people ever to appear stark naked in a court room . |
| 18 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |
| 19 | If they do not then deny them as possible bases for their own action they defeat the very point and purpose of the arbitration . |
| 20 | Outside the closemouth they crossed the street , and walked down the hill to the nearest tramstop . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 22 | They like analyzing and they like sort of practising or getting involved with complex things sort of complex piece of work very , they 're really happy in the training session to get involved whereas some people if you put something very hard , they 'll actually back away from it wo n't they cos they think well this is new , I do n't really understand this , whereas theorists will ac they actually enjoy they enjoy the stretch they enjoy the challenge . |
| 23 | The only way , however , to increase your repertoire of behaviours is to force yourself to use behaviours which are ‘ unnatural ’ so that with practice they reach the stage of being natural . |
| 24 | Ratting is second nature to a Jack Russell and through constant practice they learn the difference between a rabbit and vermin , knowing which they should kill and which they simply hold . |
| 25 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 26 | In the Wintertime they had a boat they called the Redloch and she went to Stramness and took sillocks from Stramness and took to the gut factory here in the Wintertime . |
| 27 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 28 | With all this hype and cheap talk they make the game look ignorant . |
| 29 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 30 | The service power to view panelled view was that the three point nine million pounds was effectively a minimum exceptionable level and it was within this figure they required the one point six million on minor works and footways to be increased to two million pounds for nineteen ninety three ninety four , section three concludes that it will not be appropriate to attempt to finance these extra loan charges on a continuing basis on the fixed revenue budget , as they would each year and on an accum accumulative basis consume some three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |