Example sentences of "they for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
2 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
3 | At present , Akeakamai can understand sentences of up to five words , and can understand commands even when hearing them for the first time . |
4 | Swan 's ‘ guest ’ ( ie , unpaid ) lecturers are academics singing for their supper and for the chance to revisit sites and monuments , or sometimes visit them for the first time . |
5 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
6 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
7 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
8 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
9 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
10 | In an effort to improve its PR , the country 's most prestigious hunt , pictured above this weekend , invited a journalist to ride out with them for the first time . |
11 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
12 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
13 | He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time . |
14 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
15 | According to forecasts no less than 2 million people will visit Seville in the six months of Expo , many of them for the first time . |
16 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
17 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
18 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
19 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
20 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
21 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
22 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
23 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
24 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
25 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
26 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
27 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
28 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
29 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
30 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |