Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the Command Area they move the cursor between prompts and between branches of the Command tree . |
| 3 | Melman told the tale of an American car parts manufacturer where one plant elected to perpetuate Taylorism when it installed computers , and the other agreed ( as a condition of collective bargaining ) to train workers to program , In the first plant , workers were designated ‘ operators ’ and paid $12–50 an hour ; when their machine malfunctions they nip the on-off switch and call in a repairman . |
| 4 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 5 | Another difficulty is that a third of Asian patients disappeared from contact with services , and although this was not considered statistically significant , in percentage terms they had the highest attrition rate of the three groups . |
| 6 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 7 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 8 | If the tide was low the two of them watched the gleams on the foreshore , at half tide they heard the water chuckling , waiting to lift the boats , at flood tide they saw the river as a powerful god , bearded with the white foam of detergents , calling home the twenty-seven lost rivers of London , sighing as the night declined . |
| 9 | At Dundee High Street Branch they decided the most profitable way forward on an exercise bike . |
| 10 | They told Mr Adams they welcomed the statement that Sinn Fein was committed to work towards ‘ bringing the conflict to an end ’ and that he was ‘ prepared to take political risk ’ . |
| 11 | MANY thanks for the excellent series of articles on the proposed Sports Museum they put the situation accurately and can do nothing but help our cause . |
| 12 | Through liberation movements , the mass democratic movement , churches trade unions and community organisations they reintensify the struggle against the inhumanity that is apartheid . |
| 13 | On the birdwatch grapevine they heard the news : The barred warbler has landed . |
| 14 | After Et Dieu Créa La Femme they accepted the idea that love could be filmed erotically without being pornographic . |
| 15 | Which which is why really at that th for the development funding they did the did n't particularly want I I P supporting because it is so structured and a lot of it is on a plate in a sense . |
| 16 | If they pay a service charge they have the right to obtain a summary of the costs on which their service charge is calculated and to inspect the accounts and receipts on which the summary is based . |
| 17 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 18 | Secret The solution to this trick lies in the fact that , while the children can point to which lines they like or say which colour cards they like the best , you decide which cards to take away . |
| 19 | In another case example they compare the performance of personal and social care skills by a female AD sufferer , who communicated by gesture , at home and in a day centre . |
| 20 | As control methods they have the advantage of low capital outlay , although there is the ongoing need to purchase the masking and counteracting agent , as and when necessary , and case of application , being particularly valuable where other methods can not be applied . |
| 21 | In the forests of Dean , Windsor and Clarendon the wardens took the pannage dues , and in Cannock , Sherwood and Inglewood Forests they had the profits of after-pannage — that is , money paid for the agistment of pigs in the king 's demesne woods after 11 November . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 24 | It addressed air quality they criticize the threat to air quality in their letter and that has n't been addressed by the N R A it 's beyond the N R A's permit to do that . |
| 25 | With Labour government backing they founded the Scottish Daily News but failed to capture a market . |
| 26 | Instead they asked the company for a refund on their hire agreement and when the airport office checked with the Auckland office they discovered the pair were wanted by the police . |
| 27 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 28 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 29 | To the extent that a partial offer and a tender offer relate to less than 30 per cent of a company 's voting rights they cover the same ground . |
| 30 | Had they gone , they would only have heard the pupils : in the City Temple they heard the master . ’ |