Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 2 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 3 | Then he had watched them walk to the main room with their arms around each other and kiss in the warm light before closing the door behind them . |
| 4 | The general postulates of each theory have , however , much in common : the contrasts between them depend on the phylogenetic features brought to the varying ecological conditions of life in which the animals live . |
| 5 | Stranded in the middle of a threatening black neighbourhood , he is rescued by a tow-truck driver , Danny Glover , and the two of them embark on a tentative , rather sweet black-white buddy relationship . |
| 6 | The Irish Guards would give them support from the right flank , while the Welsh would advance from the left . |
| 7 | For example : The understood realities of redemptive love and a feeling of separation from them break into the narrative sequence of both versions . |
| 8 | The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value . |
| 9 | We watched them get into a small carriage which took them off to their new residence . |
| 10 | When she cooked them , Endill sat in the kitchen on a tall stool , watching them disappear into the big soup pan full of steaming , bubbling water . |
| 11 | A slight smile curled the edges of his wide mouth as he watched them disappear behind a large veteran hay wagon parked on the far side of the pub yard . |
| 12 | To visit them continue to the main road and immediately turn to your right through the gates . |
| 13 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 14 | And , the discomfort is made even more acute when two or three of them arrive by the same post . |
| 15 | If you are running a rally aimed at inspiring and motivating people , do n't start by having them arrive in a strange city to find the car park full , the nearest suitable alternative two miles away and no taxis available because it 's Sunday evening and pouring with rain . |
| 16 | Fat Watt watched them go with a satisfied air . |
| 17 | Conversely , the same remedy may be used to treat several different clinical conditions if the patients suffering from them respond in a similar way to their illnesses . |
| 18 | Begonias are particular favourites and a gaggle of them gather on the paved area near the front door resplendent in pink , scarlet and yellow . |
| 19 | Because the widespread poverty of older women and the penury experienced by some groups among them derive to a considerable extent from the operation of social and economic policies within patriarchal capitalism , any major change in their status rests on the development of alternative policies . |
| 20 | As o through some of the possible problems , check back to see which of them apply to the slack parts of your own writing . |
| 21 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 22 | They dance to an exciting variety of music by composers such as Boyce , Shostakovich , Britten and Philip Glass . |
| 23 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 24 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 25 | As you can see from Table 16.2 , they account for a tiny fraction of total assets . |
| 26 | The three major schemes — the Library of Congress Classification Scheme , the Universal Decimal Classification Scheme and the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme — are treated in most detail , since they account for a good proportion of classification practice . |
| 27 | But among them , they account for the great majority of all innovation opportunities . |
| 28 | As they work , roughs are pinned to the wall where they remain until the following day . |
| 29 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 30 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |