Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 2 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 3 | You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children |
| 4 | Most of them just go with the flow , ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman . |
| 5 | Players hide the studs from referees by showing him their reserve pair — complete with regulation studs — and them quickly switch before the game . |
| 6 | The aim of this policy was to define parental rights and incidentally , mobilise parents by giving them more influence within the schools their children attended . |
| 7 | Is not it significant that the 10 authorities with the worst staying-on rates are all Labour controlled and that many of them also figure among the 20 authorities whose students have the worst GCSE results ? |
| 8 | A lot of them also stand on the part that covered by Street And I know Street has got a tenant 's action group against prostitutes . |
| 9 | Thus all eleven of the zonal ammonites of the Lower Lias ( basal Jurassic ) belong to different genera and only two of them even belong to the same subfamily . |
| 10 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 11 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 12 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 13 | Possibly they are apt to become too ambitious — they rarely succumb to the disease of ‘ fontitis ’ but are only too apt to have bad attacks of ‘ linkitis ’ and ‘ activitis ’ . |
| 14 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 15 | It is no surprise they all have bright red noses , for their two great loves are tobacco and whisky ; they rarely appear without a pipe and are known to raid cellars , particularly favouring homemade ale . |
| 16 | The politicking between the ruwatu is kept at a relatively low-key level , for they rarely meet as a group . |
| 17 | It is not that the advocates of these approaches to the curriculum take different views of the nature of society , but that they fundamentally differ regarding the purposes of education . |
| 18 | In short , they do not begin with a question and seek an answer ; they rather start with an answer and devise a corresponding question . |
| 19 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 20 | They only get in the way when you 're using a keyboard and anyway they 're easy to get off because the glue 's not up to much . |
| 21 | The world has an image of this country as democratic , the Switzerland of Central America , and when the tourists come , they only go to the beautiful parts , but they do n't go to other parts like Batan , Limón , Los Chiles , the peasant [ communities ] in the southern zone , where people live in difficult situations . |
| 22 | The bars here are unique in that unlike the rest of ‘ puritan ’ Germany , they only close for an hour a day to let the cleaners in ( many bars even pour drink through a loophole by cleaning half the bar at a time — prost ! ) |
| 23 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 24 | In 1986–7 , an NCT survey found 70 active milk banks ; now they only know of a handful . |
| 25 | In other words , they only respond to the differential of input signal waveforms to create single transistor hi-pass filters . |
| 26 | Now , these are examples of positional isomers just using ordinary groups they only differ in the position of those functional groups , sorry , of those groups . |
| 27 | They only differ in the position of that O H group . |
| 28 | " They only come to the Tominah 's singing , " they said . |
| 29 | They only come to the surface after dark , and so you 'd never know you had then without a torch . |
| 30 | No , well there were n't much to see if your hopper was full , you ai n't got far to go cos they only come about a foot off side , you see you could just kneel down there and catch 'em . |