Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their soul driven dance mix has packed out venues everywhere and got them airplay on top dance station Kiss FM . |
| 8 | He watched them go with quiet satisfaction . |
| 9 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They puke with great accuracy and surprising range . |
| 12 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 13 | Then they launch into this routine . |
| 14 | At the very end , when the curtain comes down , they dance to that tune ‘ My Foolish Heart ’ . ’ |
| 15 | I do not know how they communicate with each other , but their organisation is formidable . |
| 16 | It was her research that showed how close we are in evolutionary terms to the apes : how they communicate with each other , use tools ( hitherto thought to be a strictly human activity ) and develop lifelong bonds of family and friendship . |
| 17 | People who become ‘ mentally ill ’ develop psychological problems which affect their emotional moods and behaviour , and the way they communicate with other people . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 21 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 22 | They are fully described in operation by Hansford Worth on Dartmoor , where they remain as stone-built structures . |
| 23 | Small side valleys , or tributary valleys , were cut less deeply and they remain as hanging valleys above the main U-shaped troughs . |
| 24 | They remain as isolated upland masses . |
| 25 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 26 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
| 27 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 28 | If it 's diagnosed as erm leaving treatment there 's a variety of splints that frames that you lie the baby on , strap them in and they remain in that position with their legs |
| 29 | If they remain in complete heart block after attempted thrombolysis and admission to the coronary care unit , a temporary pacing catheter is inserted , being aware that there is a much higher incidence of ventricular fibrillation as the tricuspid valve is crossed in patients in this very early phase . |
| 30 | In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level . |