Example sentences of "[prep] they [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 2 | I need to speak to Governor Nicholson about them as soon as possible , do you understand ? ’ |
| 3 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 4 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 5 | Ataturk was able to control the mullahs and to find a place for them as well as for merchants and intellectuals in the new Turkey . |
| 6 | Nithard wrote of what he and his companions had suffered ; and he wrote for them as well as for Charles — significant evidence for Charles 's own constituency . |
| 7 | But when the great general of the Civil War , Oliver Cromwell , lost his temper with the Rump Parliament for trying to monopolize power , and made himself supreme instead , he regretted this war between Protestant countries and set out to make peace between them as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Cautiously , the Doctor approached the central circle of pillars , slipping between them as quietly as possible , despite the fact that there was no one around . |
| 9 | • Several tasks are required to be performed simultaneously and the subject is required to distribute his time between them as efficiently as possible . |
| 10 | They never wear out because I look after them so well and they stay young while I … |
| 11 | Many of these were prisoners of war or internees and er we 're very happy to report that these got home after the war and we have many of them here today that were prisoners of war . |
| 12 | He took two of them up here and took them in sections and built one in Stenness and another in . |
| 13 | well as it is now you , you know , you really do n't wan na be half of them up there and half of them down here on a table . |
| 14 | I met thousands of them back there and they 're all like anybody else except for the voice , French , Germans , Americans . |
| 15 | We can not ignore , therefore , the possibility of our oil tax revenues running out or reducing , and it is important to find ways of becoming independent of them as soon as possible . |
| 16 | So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible . |
| 17 | There have been improvements here and there in the East European countries , but generally speaking they distribute sulphur dioxide to their own fields and cities and to the countries downwind of them as liberally as they ever did . |
| 18 | Think about the shape of the flowers that you are pressing and try to place the blotting paper on top of them as carefully as possible to ensure that they will lie flat under the weights , because once they are permanently pressed you can not start again . |
| 19 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 20 | I began several diaries , carrying on the entries in some of them as far as February . |
| 21 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
| 22 | All of them as far as paragraph B is concerned it deals with the reduction in local government responsibilities and the growth of non-elected bodies . |
| 23 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 24 | In some cases it can be difficult or even impossible to find texts again ( for example if the text is a lecture , or a television programme ) , but you should still keep details of them as fully as possible , so that your reader knows exactly where ideas or words come from . |
| 25 | The festival village encircled the Rante , or " sacred place " — which was a smaller circle of some forty ancient stone megaliths , many of them still upright and very much resembling a Druidical circle of Celtic Europe . |
| 26 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 27 | So if you have any growing in a corner of your garden , cut some of them down now and by July there will be fresh growth for butterflies to lay their eggs on . |
| 28 | I want to wear each one of them once more before I die . ’ |
| 29 | As the reader will have noted , virtually all the suggestions had been made before , most of them quite recently and in a well publicised way . |
| 30 | Those customers still paying peanuts for their waste disposal may one day wish prices had been raised moderately against them now rather than slammed up later . |