Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | them on the floor and watch them shatter into natural pieces , di dum di dum di dum , in the absence of such a direct technique , more indirecti more indirect alternatives must b must suffice . |
| 2 | The simplest way to program the NSA 's computers at Morwenstow and Menwith Hill is to have them watch for specific names , addresses , telephone and telex numbers , as in the case of Kinnock 's call to Turnbull . |
| 3 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 4 | Thus although relatively few criteria may have held them separate in linguistic terms , for community members they were distinct , focused varieties with their own names and norms . |
| 5 | This is the third recording of Khovanshchina to have appeared in recent years , and all three of them use in various forms the version prepared by Shostakovich on the basis of Pavel Lamm 's edition . |
| 6 | Finally , in moments of vision the internal mind ‘ goes out into the external Mind ; they communicate through new kinds of sense experience — this is what the ‘ sublime ’ passages in Tintern Abbey and The Prelude are about . |
| 7 | Her story is filled with fascinating accounts of her daily observation , which reveal many extraordinary secrets of rhino behaviour : how they communicate by subtle changes in their breathing patterns , and how amicably they live together most of the time . |
| 8 | They are fully described in operation by Hansford Worth on Dartmoor , where they remain as stone-built structures . |
| 9 | Small side valleys , or tributary valleys , were cut less deeply and they remain as hanging valleys above the main U-shaped troughs . |
| 10 | Again , there are complex vertical linkages in the industry and , again , there is a block exemption which covers distribution arrangements within the industry , provided they remain within certain parameters ( which the European Community 's DGIV believe they do not in some respects ) . |
| 11 | Oh yes yeah outside yes and old programmes they sell at away matches , badges , season tickets as you might understand , but they , they are going to have a good day in April on the centenary day because they have it getting all the old players Tony says he , he 's been invited to attend as well and Gilbert I believe will be going and erm |
| 12 | Firms use the-factor inputs to produce output which they sell to domestic households ( the consumption flow ) , to other firms ( the private investment flow ) , to overseas buyers ( the export flow ) and to the government ( the government expenditure flow ) . |
| 13 | One feature of the use of both dependency ratios and population projections is that they concentrate upon expected changes in structures . |
| 14 | Silver fish sighted , they brake ; down they flash with closed wings . |
| 15 | There they sit on reserved seats in the Commons , Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , only metres away from their government counterparts , knowing they could do so much better . |
| 16 | They sit in flowered armchairs in front of the gas-fire , and drink Nescafé out of flowered mugs . |
| 17 | The ganglion cells are the neurons which communicate with the brain by propagating impulses up their axons , while their dendrites detect patterns of excitation in the photoreceptors , to which they connect through intermediate cells . |
| 18 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 19 | The eggs are guarded by the female until they hatch into free-swimming replicas of their parents . |
| 20 | While these descriptions of the semantic value of to + infinitive are too specific to be adequate characterizations of the potential meanings involved here ( in fact they correspond to actual meanings of the construction in particular contexts ) , they are nevertheless faithful reflections of the potential meaning of to and of the fact that the latter always evokes the bare infinitive 's event as an after-position with respect to some position before its realization . |
| 21 | These four categories admittedly overlap in theory and in practice , but I use them since they correspond to real differences of approach in the study of literary language , and help to show in what way stylistic and linguistic studies differ . |
| 22 | 5.3 There are two further reasons for not accepting any sort of identification between adverbal adjectives and predicate qualifiers , apart from the indications given by ambiguity , and by the fact that they correspond to different types of question , and by the intuitively close relationship which is found in many cases between a verb + adverbal adjective pair and a single lexical verb . |
| 23 | They correspond to chaotic fluctuations of the whole circulation . |
| 24 | Through language they distinguish between different types of objects , events , actions and people . |
| 25 | If other Victorian novelists do not set fire to their great houses with as much frequency as Dickens , they tend in other ways to undermine them , suggesting that they too perceive them , not merely as fabrics , but as expressions of an outmoded system . |
| 26 | Stalling , orange feet spread , they land with gentle thuds beside their holes . |
| 27 | Okay cats tend to land on their feet but they also tend to take injuries like erm severe pancreatic injuries if they land from high things , so they do n't just |
| 28 | In the legal context , we need to feel that the prohibitions of laws , in the way they are defined and in the way they are applied , are justifiable and influence us all equally ( or , again , if they do not , that they discriminate on acceptable grounds ) . |
| 29 | They discriminate against extensive farms on poor lands . |
| 30 | Scottish NFU bosses say the MacSharry CAP reform plans are flawed because they discriminate against large-scale farmers . |