Example sentences of "they [vb base] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To visit them continue to the main road and immediately turn to your right through the gates . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As o through some of the possible problems , check back to see which of them apply to the slack parts of your own writing . |
| 5 | They dance to an exciting variety of music by composers such as Boyce , Shostakovich , Britten and Philip Glass . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They correspond to the ventral basal muscles of the maxilla . |
| 8 | Self-help schemes provide Latin American governments with a cheap solution for housing the poor , but the contribution they make to the wider socio-economic structure is more far-reaching . |
| 9 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
| 10 | Bolinger points out furthermore that the use of the to infinitive after verbs of perception when they shift to the inferential sense fits into an overall pattern with the object + infinitive construction . |
| 11 | It is notable that the US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area , showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both . |
| 12 | Individuals will also vary in the importance they attach to a particular time-cue . |
| 13 | [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] In comparative terms , however , they testify to a poor record , the cumulative effect of which was a decline in Britain 's international economic status to a level undreamt of even as late as 1955 [ Kravis , 1976 ; Stout , 1979 ] . |
| 14 | They testify to the long hours he has spent working under the eye of his father , Bob . |
| 15 | We may use physical methods of measuring light intensity that are apparently independent of our subjective experience — for instance photosensitive cells — but these are accepted because they correlate to a greater or lesser degree , under normal circumstances , with subjective experiences of brightness . |
| 16 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 17 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 18 | I guess that is a form of training as well , in that we are being made more aware of teaching issues and problems as they appear to the everyday teacher . |
| 19 | Christians believe that the soul goes marching on — they hope to a better world , and atheists in eternal sleep . |
| 20 | They object to a little cotton apron on the mice which is made from a baby 's dress — it was suitable for a baby but not for a stuffed mouse to wear ! ’ |
| 21 | They object to the two giants being lumped together simply because they are hugely ambitious , colossally expensive and largely Texan . |
| 22 | Infants can also be observed to enjoy playing with their faeces , something which adults do if they regress to the anal phase when in a confined cell , in prison or hospital . |
| 23 | They react to a chemical present in starfish and will perform equally amazing gyrations if a piece of crushed starfish is dropped into the water . |
| 24 | The answer , of course , depends upon the quantity rule that firms employ , in particular how they react to a higher level of demand than they were expecting . |
| 25 | An and you take the surnames and they react to the first surname , I get race stories er calls occasionally |
| 26 | They react to the latest discoveries with blasé aplomb , remaining unruffled by theological controversy . |
| 27 | They spread to the Conservative Party 's own library where they were in marked contrast to the public image created by her backing of the new British Library buildings , as we shall see shortly . |
| 28 | Eschewing the willy in favour of a well-adjusted McCulloch chainsaw , they cut to the intellectual quick with a violence born of years of journalistic abuse . |
| 29 | It must therefore help learners when they listen to a foreign language if they can see as well as hear what is going on . |
| 30 | He said , and it 's really good , he said , cos I 'm , I 'm celebrating my fortieth birthday , he said , and I ring my boys , he said , and they listen to the same sort of music I do . |