Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously they had lacked an identity , but the training period had welded them together into a cohesive fighting force with an intense pride in themselves and their unit . |
| 2 | He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’ |
| 3 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 4 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 5 | And although overseas sales are steadily growing , many countries , such as the US , Germany , Italy , and the UK , are producing their own robots , and using them innovatively in a variety of non-manufacturing applications . |
| 6 | It receives them automatically as a member of the European Broadcasting Union , a privilege granted to it because 15 member stations of that cosy cartel own the half of Eurosport which Murdoch does not . |
| 7 | Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) . |
| 8 | You do n't have to gather them together in a group in order for that to be a successful piece of creative activity . ’ |
| 9 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 10 | But it can learn to comprehend a series of events by bringing them together into a cohesive , learned pattern to form a language . |
| 11 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
| 12 | He watched Tom lift two more saucepans from the range and empty them together with a handful of salt into the tub . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want to meet them again in a hurry . |
| 14 | The size and weight of the larger models would suit them only for a fairly hefty boat . |
| 15 | To say nothing of mashing the boring bits down to a slurry of images , hosing them away with a touch of your finger . |
| 16 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 17 | Many have a dread of something happening that will plunge them suddenly into a situation of near-poverty , and a few also unconsciously use their financial problems as pegs on which to hang their much deeper fears concerning their health and their future , which they may find hard to face . |
| 18 | If we sign an act without a record contract , we develop their music and their image so we can present them favourably to a record company . ’ |
| 19 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 20 | All these different productions are sometimes summarised by writing them thus on a single line : |
| 21 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 22 | I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle . |
| 23 | No , I 've never seen them there on a Thursday |
| 24 | Keith Simmons , Alborne 's lethal striker , put them ahead with a goal from the centre spot right on kick-off , and it was immediately obvious that our radical 0-2-7 formation was not going to work . |
| 25 | One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound . |
| 26 | Individually they are fine and I get on very well with most of them , but put them together in a group and they seem to have an attitude problem . |
| 27 | Put them together in a lonely hotel room to await the first night with a new lover . |
| 28 | Not wanting to offend , I gave them a try and ended up almost throwing the box away , but instead I put them aside in a small corner of my studio . |
| 29 | Hold them there for a few moments ( see Fig. 11 ) . |
| 30 | They hope the investigation will bring them closer to a re-trial . |