Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 2 | Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee . |
| 3 | She says she needs to gather up , in her post-modern skirt , all the creative , affirmative , intellectual parts of her childhood ; she needs to know how her folk survived , and when she looks for them in England , on TV , at the theatre , in art galleries , in advertising , they 're invisible . |
| 4 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 5 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 6 | They run off laughing like parrots as my companion shouts after them in disgust . |
| 7 | Where the latter have rejected other gods in favour of the one they wish to follow , the former has attempted to assimilate the many gods in which it believes into a single Deity who stands behind them as their ground . |
| 8 | The aim behind this use of the Commissioner 's name is twofold : to give assisted persons more assurance that the Commissioner stands behind them in the proceedings , and to increase public awareness of the grant of assistance and of the Commissioner . |
| 9 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 10 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 11 | She , she , looks upon them as a thoroughly disposable commodity . |
| 12 | The majority of our sample ( 59% ) describe themselves as fairly confident they know what their sexual partner wants from them during sex . |
| 13 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 14 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 15 | The world looks to them for decisive leadership on this issue , as on others " . |
| 16 | And she just writes over them in , in pen ! |
| 17 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 18 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 19 | What happens to them on their retirement from their working life ? |
| 20 | Whatever happens to them at school , children must not be bored . |
| 21 | ‘ What happens to them in the wood ? ’ |
| 22 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 23 | They had velvet flaps over them like letterboxes . |
| 24 | Thus when carnal and financial imagery in the tale finally merge in the puns taille and taillynge at the very end , it is an emblem of how much deeper the " " bretherhede " " and " " cosynage " " runs that the monk and the merchant imagine exists between them in the form of play , or as a polite figure of speech , and how concrete it is . |
| 25 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 26 | Over the centuries the Church of England has developed a complex set of laws to deal with internal matters , and deals with them in its own courts . |
| 27 | Surely it is better that new members feel that they are members of an organization which deals with them in a more personal basis and are not just another number . |
| 28 | It can not see how good or bad it is in reaching its objectives unless it engages with them for most of the manager 's time . |
| 29 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 30 | Moses ' brother-in-law goes with them as guide . |