Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 2 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 3 | Often the height and fast bipedalism of the carnosaurs enabled them to tower over the extremely well-protected horned ceratopsians , and simply seize them from above with a powerfully armed mouth . |
| 4 | The German prostitutes were terribly clean and efficient and not one of them seemed in the least turned on by what they were doing . |
| 5 | Behind the long counter there were hams hanging , the smell of them adding to the already aromatic air of the place . |
| 6 | The views of his French contemporary , the Carmelite , Jean de Venette , corresponded almost exactly ; not without reason did the poor people of France have little trust in the nobility who abused them and their property and virtually held them to ransom in the most disgraceful way . |
| 7 | Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through . |
| 8 | This is that the evaluation of a company 's prospects is ultimately a matter of subjective judgment , and hence what ‘ economists frequently characterize as quantifiable risks are in reality uncertainties of such large and incalculable proportions as to intimidate investors and send them scurrying to the seemingly safer ground of follow-the-leader ’ . |
| 9 | They seemed strangely modern , suggestively effective as a sculpture by Picasso ; they lived in the now . |
| 10 | Inevitably they led to the totally unnecessary deaths of many pet cats , as jittery owners took emergency steps to protect themselves from the dreaded twentieth-century plague . |
| 11 | I think it is important to remember that if they complied with the properly doc adopted and formulated town plan then the permission would have been granted , obviously subject to details and . |
| 12 | This comment in a recent ILO/UNCTC study of EPZs in the Caribbean is very typical : ‘ In spite of the small number of jobs generated so far , the rate at which EPZs create employment is , however , so high that they rank as the most dynamic agents for job creation compared with other sources of national employment ’ ( Long , 1986 , p.60 ) . |
| 13 | This despite the increasingly apocalyptic talk about the inflation and unemployment that would arrive with the launch on new year 's day of a set of economic reforms : price liberalisation , the sale of small businesses and internal convertibility of the crown ( meaning that Czechoslovak firms licensed to conduct foreign trade can now buy as much foreign currency as they want at the newly unified exchange rate ) . |
| 14 | But , on the other hand , they ranged to the equally fervent , though dissatisfied Masden , the Jesuit who described the earlier works as catalogues of the ‘ perfidy , perjury and brazen deeds of Rodrigo Diaz . ’ |
| 15 | Reacting both against existing conditions in Russia and against the prospect of capitalist development they built upon the specifically Russian socialism adumbrated by the Petrashevtsy and spelled out by Herzen . |
| 16 | It does , however , provide a useful introductory focus on Hilton 's breadth of appeal , and also on his understanding of the terms " active " and " contemplative " as they appear in the more sophisticated books of The Scale . |
| 17 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 18 | The party machines were crooked , but at least they provided for the to-and-fro of political patronage in ways that left the mayor , as chief executive , relatively free to run the city . |
| 19 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 20 | They provide for the less committed who still wish to enjoy some of the fruits of the soccer culture . |
| 21 | What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ? |
| 22 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 23 | The only thing that could warp the way that the band goes is the media , because they lie for the most part ; they come up with their own reasons and their own interpretations and people just believe what they read . ’ |
| 24 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 25 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 26 | They differed in the seemingly trivial but nonetheless diagnostic character of having not one but two pairs of antennae on their heads . |
| 27 | They begin with the essentially sound premiss that no physical property that one might have is a logically sufficient condition of one having a particular experience . |
| 28 | Rather than try to impose large structures on what is happening from the outset , they begin at the most local level , trying to see how participants in interaction handle conversation : how they judge who can speak , and when . |
| 29 | As they turned into the straight on the first circuit Mill House , jumping like a buck , had the lead , with Arkle pulling hard in his wake and taking his fences superbly . |
| 30 | They turned on the newly arrived Marines in surprise , and yet with considerable ferocity , hurling themselves at the armed men , who coolly gunned them down , their machetes being no match for rifles . |