Example sentences of "they [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 2 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 3 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 4 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 5 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 6 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 7 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 8 | ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight . |
| 9 | He could have disposed of them in a more conclusive way on a bonfire or by throwing them down an old mineshaft . ’ |
| 10 | They spread the risks of lending by pooling funds and allocating them over a wide range of depositors ( e.g. unit trusts ) . |
| 11 | Management should effect redundancies at one point in time rather than spreading them over a long period . |
| 12 | Many commonly-prescribed drugs increase the sensitivity of the skin and eyes to ultra-violet light — particularly if you take them over a long period of time . |
| 13 | The Profitboss. genuinely cares for his customers and develops sound trusting relationships with them over a long period of time . |
| 14 | The bulk of the programme would then outline in some detail the specific projects being funded , and the resources allocated to them over a 3–4-year period . |
| 15 | The NEAP process involves : ( i ) the identification of a country 's environmental conditions and specific problems ; ( ii ) preparation of proposals to overcome the problems ; and ( iii ) formulation of a plan of action to deal with them over a specific period of time . |
| 16 | I peel off my clothes , and put them over a low branch . |
| 17 | Chop the vegetables and heat them over a low flame . |
| 18 | Under the agreement the seven EFTA member countries would immediately abolish trade barriers on all goods covered except for certain sensitive products , while Czechoslovakia would abolish them over a 10-year period . |
| 19 | However , if the force-carrying particles have a high mass , it will be difficult to produce and exchange them over a large distance . |
| 20 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
| 21 | These children had suffered 25 attacks between them over a 59-day period . |
| 22 | Another major advantage over the thinner types of cladding is that they provide additional insulation to exterior walls ( which can be augmented by fixing them over an extra layer of insulation ) . |
| 23 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 24 | It is rather important to prolong important climaxes , rather than let them slip away quickly , by holding them over an adequate period , through word repetition , musical extensions , etc . |
| 25 | It was like pulling them off a duplicating machine , and after a while , when we realised we had little or no chance of catching anything bigger , it became so boring we never went again . |
| 26 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 27 | In Ninfania , no one threw away the feather of a bird or the peel of a fruit or the seed from a melon , let alone such durable items as the buttons and hooks and eyes from a worn-out item of underwear — I 've seen you still snip them off an old bra , even today , and drop them into a little box in your sewing basket . |
| 28 | I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme . |
| 29 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 30 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |