Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The mix-up in dates has also occurred in other parts of the country and Neil Dickinson , secretary of the English Schools AAA , wrote to county secretaries a month ago reminding them of the recommended date . |
2 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
3 | The governor himself stood waiting to greet them beneath a large , gilt-framed portrait of the Emperor Napoleon . |
4 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
5 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
6 | We had some discussion at somewhere , that we decided that erm to include them in the divisional training , Yeah . |
7 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
8 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
9 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
10 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
11 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
12 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
13 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
14 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
15 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
16 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
17 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
18 | In the main these were the moving of all the machinery from the Frame Shops themselves and Body-Shop lean-to , relocating them in the Old Lifting Shop ( No 34 on the 1906 map ) , and the introduction of welded frames . |
19 | Touching , stroking not her but the jewels — touching them with an awful tenderness . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
22 | When the snow comes , this will insulate them from the cold air and allow them to tease out woodlice , spiders and other invertebrates from leaf-litter or plant roots . |
23 | Bring them to the next lesson . |
24 | Pot up one or two strawberry plants for a special treat : bring them into a cool greenhouse or conservatory , watering sparingly . |
25 | ‘ If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals . |
26 | And after the harvester they would take in those big tramp coles and bring them into the big hay stack . |
27 | He believes it should take the parts of our lives that are most sore , most hurtful , most unspoken , most taboo and bring them into the public sphere . |
28 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
29 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
30 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |