Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 2 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 3 | Driving home in the minibus , she offered Silas an apologetic smile as she admitted , ‘ I had n't the heart to throw them out . ’ |
| 4 | After whaling died out , there was cod fishing and , in the eighteenth century especially , piracy , when the Atlantic corsairs of Bayonne and Saint-Jean made mighty profits for the local burghers who put up the money to fit them out . |
| 5 | Wally 's dad had the contract to clear them out , sort out what could be sold off and junk the rest . |
| 6 | When the Iraqis invaded Kuwait , the decision to drive them out was made for him . |
| 7 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 8 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I had ordered sandwiches by phone two minutes earlier and was about to leave the building to pick them up . |
| 10 | So while it was wrong for the IRA to let off bombs in Northern Ireland it was quite all right for the DGSE to let them off in New Zealand . |
| 11 | the only thing again that I 'm thinking of what if we gets them out of the caravan and we gets them into the car and we 're getting them in and out here and then we gets them back into the car to take them back over and in to the caravan , what if we rip the bloody things ? |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , yes , indeed ; aim for the legs to bring them down . |
| 13 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 14 | He lifted a strong hand , signalled brusquely for the Mercedes to pick them up , and pushed her into the rear seats , sliding in next to her . |
| 15 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 16 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 17 | You can offer pralines , cakes and so on , but there 's no point — there are n't the ingredients to make them out of ’ . |
| 18 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 19 | I shall place a few grains of corn on her head and allow the hen to peck them off her scalp for a minute or two . |
| 20 | Groups of men had been working ceaselessly since the battle to tear them down and salvage what they could of their contents . |
| 21 | For a more curly effect , tong smaller sections of hair then run your fingers through the curls to separate them out |
| 22 | On the ground , in accordance with this order , 5 Corps had already entered into arrangements with the Yugoslavs to take them over , and the first batches of Croats had already been repatriated , with the remaining categories to follow . |
| 23 | The problem , suggests Moberly , is how to create a change of attitude in the child to bring them back again . |
| 24 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 25 | You need not so much as move a company across the Glen to fetch them down . |
| 26 | Now those roses reminded her of Gerry , who had pasted them there , and she wondered if she would ever find the courage to scrape them off . |
| 27 | But as she bent to cuddle them a small boy , brushing down a pony , picked up a lump of mud and hurled it at the dogs to drive them off . |
| 28 | One can pull interest rates up , but one can not push the string to get them down again . |
| 29 | Erin kicked Khaur over to where he 'd been told to sit when the pilot first landed at the burrow to ferry them back to headquarters . |
| 30 | Then again the painting illustrates in a very concrete fashion the pull Picasso felt between the desire to give forms an explicit , volumetrical treatment , and the need to flatten them up onto the picture plane ( compare , for example , the almost sculptural treatment of the breasts and the arms with that of the head , which is rendered in terms of two flat planes ) . |