Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] they [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are such men in this city , and even to see them , never mind to touch them or have them kiss you , or see them just before dawn , or to have them as one of your dear friends , is one of the great pleasures of our life , and it is commoner than most people think . |
| 2 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 3 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 4 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 5 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 6 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 7 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 8 | He took a calculator from his wallet , added up the marks and divided them by 8 . |
| 9 | Next , enter nine other matches in a second column on the coupon and bracket them into three trios with a thick , dividing line underneath each set of three selections . |
| 10 | Hermite responded with a profuse apology for the oversight , and suggested that Smith could help the Academy out of an embarrassing position by rewriting his earlier papers in French , complete with full proofs , and submitting them by I June in accordance with the competition rules . |
| 11 | If you are prepared to live dangerously , you can take many of the techniques above and combine them in one image , or , you may even discover completely new applications for this superb medium . |
| 12 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 13 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 14 | Roll the mixture into small balls about the size of walnuts and place them on two large baking sheets . |
| 15 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 16 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 17 | I took my clothes off and put them into one of the largest warships . |
| 18 | and put them on one side . |
| 19 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 20 | This means that you could for example , take the pieces of garment originally designed for conventional knitting and rotate them through 90 degrees to get a pattern for sideways knitting . |
| 21 | I would like to suggest that you take a piece of paper and rule it as follows ( see table on page 184 ) , including the headings Short Term , Long Term and Ultimate Goals , and separating them into two sections — Tangible and Intangible . |
| 22 | It just was n't a thing you could ignore , and being alone at it was to combine the worst elements of being alone at any other time , and multiply them by two hundred and fifty . |
| 23 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 24 | ‘ I was very sorry to hear about your husband , Mrs Ward , ’ Langton said , closing the door of his office and ushering them towards two chairs . |
| 25 | and selling them at seven . |
| 26 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 27 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 28 | The organisation planned its first fibre field trials in 1974 , and began them in 1977 . |
| 29 | To convert the pre-1975 national insurance stamps to the new system , the DHSS adds up all the stamps paid and credited before 1975 , and divides them by 50 . |
| 30 | It was a case of , I mean we used to start and wash them at three o'clock in the morning because t you had to start then because you 'd never get it all done . |