Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At or soon after puberty they leave the troops in which they were born and work their way into new ones . |
| 2 | In Inverness , Johnson held forth on the benefits Scotland had derived from the Union , and after church they saw the Quay and Macbeth 's Castle , and had lunch with Mr Keith , the excise collector , whose wife quizzed Johnson about his ‘ drinking water ’ . |
| 3 | With a reasonable amount of intelligent deduction and a good deal of luck they find the loot of churches on the Spanish Main hidden by the priest-turned-pirate Domingo Mugnoz . |
| 4 | She erm said well of course they know the questions beforehand and the , the answers are always written out for them erm but I , I would n't have thought all the answers because some of them come over quite spontaneously . |
| 5 | And I still maintain er of course they use the old argument that er tapes and all this and erm they er scar the countryside . |
| 6 | and of course they had the Thames which was their main highway , Thames was much easier to use than |
| 7 | At sea of course they measure the temperature of the surface of the sea as well . |
| 8 | As a matter of course they checked the rest of the disused area before leaving the palace . |
| 9 | When you , when you look and you see how people survived and of course they delivered the that you , I mean like we had dripping and bread . |
| 10 | Of course they see the advertising before that age ; of course , they see people smoking before that age . |
| 11 | One of the difficulties of using politicians ' or military leaders ' diaries is that they are always likely to be personal justifications of their own actions at the time , and of course they give the impression that the whole of history consists of political intrigue or war . |
| 12 | Of course they give the heroin back . |
| 13 | And of course they want the most economic ways of doing it . |
| 14 | I want to see elderly people looked after well and if they can be looked after at home all well and good but of course they need the facilities . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The leaders remain haunted by the forces of dissent they ordered the army to crush . |
| 17 | In so far as leaks advertise unhappiness about a line of policy they undermine the principle of collective responsibility , as well as the confidentiality of proceedings . |
| 18 | They take no exercise and their appetite lessens ; out of frustration they gnaw the bars of the stall . |
| 19 | Three metres in front of Quiss they saw the tall human and skidded to a stop , in unison . |
| 20 | Through chauvinism or lack of thoroughness they omitted the many Scottish versions of the rhyme , even though some are known to be very old . |
| 21 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |
| 22 | In the end they failed , but during their period of dominance they entered the sugar trade very successfully and persuaded the English in the West Indies to grow sugar to take the place of tobacco ; at first they thought they could absorb the English islands into the Amsterdam trading system , but while it quite soon turned out that this was not the case and direct Dutch influence did not last very long , the commitment to sugar dominated the islands for at least two hundred years and remained important long afterwards . |
| 23 | These were small victories , but in those days of darkness they gave the High Elves some hope . |
| 24 | Whereas from Britain 's point of view the London exchanges decided nothing , from the tsar 's point of view they cleared the decks for international action . |
| 25 | In the case of pain they ignore the way pain feels , for instance . |
| 26 | For ebulliometry , T , ΔH , and ΔT are the boiling temperature of the solvent , the enthalpy of vaporization of the solvent , and the elevation of the boiling temperature respectively , while for cryoscopy they represent the freezing temperature of the solvent , the enthalpy of fusion of the solvent , and the depression of the freezing temperature . |
| 27 | On this er er further to this point about continuity they make the point as well that a system of election by thirds makes it more difficult for the officers of the authority to dominate the councillors . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 30 | As Cranston and Athelstan turned into Cheapside they saw the festive spirit had spread . |