Example sentences of "[vb -s] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And they play the pipes , just as the Arab plays them with a bag holding air , ’ I added . |
| 2 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 3 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 4 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
| 5 | The body has an organising intelligence that orders it and runs all the processes and functions of the parts and integrates them into the whole . |
| 6 | Clownfish raised in captivity seemingly do not undergo the learning process established in the wild , which closely associates them with an anemone for the whole of their lives . |
| 7 | He has studied the details of their forms and physiognomy and renders them in a manner both truthful and original . |
| 8 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 9 | Bitflik scans a directory for all BMP files and displays them like a slideshow , one after the other pausing briefly between each one . |
| 10 | The educational problem-posing approach with triggers and dialogue helps people move beyond barriers to learning and involves them in a group process to change their lives as learners and as emerging teachers in their communities . |
| 11 | Each set of social practices not only determines the characteristics of the individuals who engage in it but also supplies them with a conception of the range of properties they can have , and of its limits . |
| 12 | As these animals roam around their home ground , any unaccustomed mark alerts them to the passage of a stranger . |
| 13 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 14 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 15 | Discrimination against people on the grounds of ‘ non-normal ’ bodies or intellectual capacity places them outside the mainstream of social life . |
| 16 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 17 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 18 | To ‘ freeze-dry ’ his wigs , David simply applies gel to the wigs and places them in the freezer for 30 minutes ! |
| 19 | The pass-codes are a boon , but a game this tricky needs them after EVERY level , not every ten . |
| 20 | Maria ties up the contents in parcels , and ( I believe ) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants . |
| 21 | To undertake strategic research , which takes the new ideas coming out of basic research and develops them to the point where the possibility of commercial application can be identified . |
| 22 | That 's what has them on the run although , in the end , they 'll be forced to give birth . |
| 23 | She has them in the bathroom with her , and she apologizes : ‘ I 've just put fifty pence in the meter to get water for our bath . ’ |
| 24 | Many of them just lie there helplessly until somebody manhandles them over the side of the boat . |
| 25 | At this stage , he was firmly opposed to federation ; ‘ Federation is harmful because it sanctions segregation and alienation , elevates them to a principle , to a law . ’ |
| 26 | As Wood and Wood comment , ‘ relating ideas to their social context ’ far from ‘ depriving them of their universal meaning ’ in fact ‘ rescues them from the emptiness of ethereal abstractions which have no human meaning at all ’ ( ibid. p. x ) . |
| 27 | There is an unconditional appropriation when the goods are identified and the third person acknowledges that he now holds them for the buyer , Wardars ( Import & exports ) v. W. Norwood ( 1968 C.A. ) . |
| 28 | The shears are a Y that wants to be an X — he holds them like a water diviner , |
| 29 | TV loves them as a bunch of token weirdos . |
| 30 | There is no absolute requirement for the terms to be printed on the document which incorporates them into the contract . |