Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then dropping not one , but two balls will be an effective strategy because the gravitational forces acting on them converge toward the centre of the Earth as in Fig. 2.1 . |
| 2 | Without doubt , close and loving physical contact between child and mother , or surrogate mother , promotes both physical and emotional well-being in the infant ; while cursory and uncomfortable handling , lack of communication and the signs of " non-loving " implicit in them make for the opposite . |
| 3 | However , to the extent that our assumptions for thinking about them remain within the framework which derives from Weberian thought , we may well not recognize them for what they may be . |
| 4 | I step on a few and watch them crack in the middle like a sheet of glass . |
| 5 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 6 | Note has been taken of these and some of them appear in the panel 's revision . |
| 7 | He watched them walk towards the car . |
| 8 | A common denominator both of these critiques and of positivism and natural law theories , is that most of them speak about the law — even if this is seen to have many facets . |
| 9 | This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued . |
| 10 | Fry the onion gently in the butter until soft , add the lovage and continue for one or two more minutes , them mix in the flour , and add the stock gradually , stirring all the time and bring to the boil . |
| 11 | And there — how clearly he remembered it suddenly — there , watching them climb into the dark , was the boy , smiling beatifically , his big , dark eyes filled with wonder . |
| 12 | The assembled friends were told by Brendan Bracken in tones of wonderment that Churchill — that great Francophile — had rung to bellow that he would watch them die without a qualm if they ‘ ratted on Poland as they had ratted on Czechoslovakia , ’ while Bob Boothby told them repeatedly how he had exhorted Winston to ‘ break Chamberlain and take his place ’ . |
| 13 | Outside the months of breeding all but a few species disappear to wintering grounds well south of the Arctic Circle ; thus the arctic has over 150 species of breeding land birds , but only eight of them reside on the tundra all the year round . |
| 14 | Two boys who were rescued from the fighting in Lebanon are back tonight at the hospital that rebuilt their bodies and gave them hope for the future . |
| 15 | I can easily walk out onto the streets to do some shopping : the centre of the town is crammed with funny little shops of all kinds , bars , cafes , etc. , many of them open to the street , there was even a shop selling nothing but plastic bags ( they did n't seem to be doing much of a trade ) . |
| 16 | Why did one of them look like a man who had supposedly been dead for over two hundred years ? |
| 17 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |
| 18 | In our mind we watch them happen in the future . |
| 19 | The Bill also imposes an automatic one-year driving ban , but I can not help wondering how many young people will be deterred by that — particularly as many of them drive without a licence anyway . |
| 20 | Watching one of them wobble through a developpe in glazed desperation or another sickle his foot in an over-extended arabesque , you feel how cruelly Hall 's ambitions tax his company . |
| 21 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 22 | As she watched them disappear into the distance she shivered with the chill of her own isolation . |
| 23 | ( Hence when the evangelist has the women discover the empty tomb , he does not have them witness to the resurrection but rather go and tell the men . ) |
| 24 | Then the three of them talk to a radio interviewer from The Coca-Cola Euro Chart Hot 100 show . |
| 25 | ‘ But , on the other hand , probably very few of them decide on a whim to spend their entire capital on a shop in a strange city in a country they know nothing about , without doing the most elementary homework . |
| 26 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 27 | Curriculum changes and the planning necessary to achieve them originate at a number of points : in the cabinet , in the ministry of education , in the curriculum project or in the school ; yet in every instance six similar processes are involved : |
| 28 | interviews were taken on tours and I saw some of them go down the hill |
| 29 | Many of them go through the freedom of Grendon , only to be returned to the rough and tumble of ordinary jails to finish their sentences . |
| 30 | Just last week a survey by Brook Advisory Centres revealed an estimated 84,000 15 year old girls are sexually active , yet just 18,000 of them go to a family planning clinic . |