Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Joseph 's startled ears they sounded like a simultaneous volley of a thousand rifle shots . |
| 2 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 3 | Queensland 's short , mild winter was slipping easily into a vibrant spring , and tropical plants and shrubs were beginning to fill the gardens they passed with a colourful bounty of flowers . |
| 4 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 5 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 6 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 7 | On the other hand , as the new scheme stands , it will make little impact on the poverty experienced by lone mothers ; there is still no adequate compensation for women for the costs they bear as a consequence of inequalities in marriage and child-rearing ; and the financial dependency of individual women on individual men is maintained . |
| 8 | From such observations they generalized to a theory of The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map , the title they gave to their 1978 book . |
| 9 | That surviving half-page on Alexandria with its three classes of people is memorable : the Egyptians , " an acute and civilized race " ; the mercenaries , " a numerous , rough and uncultivated set " ; and the Alexandrians themselves , " a people not genuinely civilized … but still superior to the mercenaries for though they are mongrels they came from a Greek stock and have not forgotten Greek customs " ( 34.14 ) . |
| 10 | We shall examine the difficulties they encountered in a later chapter ( pp. 354 ff . ) . |
| 11 | Our interest , however , lies in the principles employed by the pupils themselves to fit the actions they describe into a meaningful framework . |
| 12 | In mathematics and the sciences they fail in a rather different way : they simply are not demanding enough , especially in mathematics . |
| 13 | After a couple of hundred yards they came to a ristorante . |
| 14 | EVERY retailer , big or small , selling electrical and gas appliances , will be obliged to ‘ energy label ’ the items they sell under a European Commission proposal . |
| 15 | He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke . |
| 16 | The attackers told witnesses they belonged to a group called People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar ( PEPES ) , which has sworn to destroy the drug lord and his organisation . |
| 17 | We shall go on improving education and training to guarantee that all our children have the basic knowledge and skills they need in a modern economy . |
| 18 | Military commanders sometimes push a salient forward but at other times they advance on a broad front . |
| 19 | After council meetings they adjourned to a local pub for a refreshing drink paid for out of their own pockets . |
| 20 | Conceptualising , therefore , is best understood as the mental effort that people make in understanding their circumstances and attempting to find solutions to the practical problems and frustrations they find on a day-to-day basis . |
| 21 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 22 | In a report published today the Association claims that most people can get all the vitamins they need from a healthy diet . |
| 23 | Outside the gates they fell into a more or less orderly procession , Owen at their head . |
| 24 | The transactions demand for money arises because individuals receive their incomes weekly or monthly and yet have to pay for many of the goods and services they buy on a day-to-day basis . |
| 25 | If they are made to feel lesser , to any type of women they react with a certain machismo to try and subvert that . |
| 26 | For the men , garments are symbolic markers of filial love and recognition , whereas for the women they serve as a means of self-inscription in a system that neglects them … . |
| 27 | Even then , habit and a stubborn trust that our audience spied upon us from behind then nearest bush , forced our bodies to blunder on long after they had emptied of meaning , until like runaway carts they dragged to a halt . |
| 28 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 29 | Any hopes they had of a successful Cup run to take the heat off their internal worries disappeared in the mud at Underhill . |