Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It 's just that most offices put them in the open near the coffee machine or the Ladies loo and anybody can see what 's coming over . |
2 | So , naturally , many insect-eating animals pursue them in the air . |
3 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
4 | Elsewhere , individual protesters were being held down while Mosley 's guards beat them over the head and about the face . |
5 | Other time bombs await them in the form of the dispute over the GATT farm trade deal , French involvement in Bosnia , proposed constitutional reforms and , not least , how to handle the approaching period of ‘ cohabitation ’ with an ageing , isolated and deeply unpopular , but nevertheless still extraordinarily wily , Socialist president . |
6 | All the tunes mentioned so far were , so to speak , rescued from the hands of ‘ folk ’ song collectors and those of ‘ refined ’ parlour performers ; Corvan 's texts articulate them to the needs of his class , at a particular moment in its history . |
7 | The feathery and delicate fronds of the ferns make them among the most beautiful of the foliage plants , and they attract a fanatical group of devotees dedicated to growing exotic species in inhospitable cities . |
8 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
9 | The policemen controlling the pedestrians beckon them across the road . |
10 | Nurses volunteer their services when they wish to work and managers engage them at the times required . |
11 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
12 | Webs of bilateral deals protect them from the full brunt of competition . |
13 | If that is the case , then the only feasible way of including such shares is if the holders assent them to the scheme by separate undertakings . |
14 | More cubs will be reared by cheetahs whose genes equip them with the optimum compromise between running speed , milk production and all the other calls on their budget . |
15 | Informal discussions with Afro-Caribbean pupils indicated that the pupils felt that certain teachers disrespect them on the basis of their ethnicity and that for these pupils the pupil-teacher relationship was based on conflict , with the pupils attempting to play the teachers at their own ‘ game ’ in order to survive . |
16 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |
17 | This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’ |
18 | Others lay them in the stems , in the roots or in buds . |
19 | The boys spear them on the reef . |
20 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
21 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
22 | The over-running and Anglicising of the Highlands after Culloden , when even the traditional form of dress was banned , would soon lead to assimilation , and even though ‘ the inhabitants of mountains form distinct races , and are careful to preserve their genealogies ’ , Johnson concludes without emotion that ‘ while their rocks seclude them from the rest of mankind , and kept them an unaltered and distinctive race … they are now losing their distinction , and hastening to mingle with the general community . ’ |
23 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
24 | Appliances have them on the front . |