Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pinned down the boards and laid new felt and carpet — unaware Mike was underneath . |
| 2 | Once spinning , they are difficult to stop , and they flash down the slopes in a series of great leaps and bounds , making a loud whirring noise , and travel sometimes for hundreds of metres . |
| 3 | I like them because they push back the boundaries . |
| 4 | They make up the words themselves , right |
| 5 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 6 | The lacewing 's ears are at the base of each forewing , and cause the wings to fold whenever they pick up the bats ' echolocating sounds . |
| 7 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |
| 8 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 9 | Cut notches in end boards so they fit around the uprights . |
| 10 | The remembered light on the empty hayfields would grow magical , the green shade of the beeches would give out a delicious coolness as they tasted again the sardines between slices of bread : when they were away the house would become the summer light and shade above their whole lives . |
| 11 | ‘ Most include plant extracts which have a stimulating effect on the circulation so they top up the benefits of a massage and boost your blood flow for a little longer . |
| 12 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 13 | When a circus comes to town they send in the stars … so who better than Desert Orchid to lead the festival parade into Cheltenham … |
| 14 | But they gloss over the ambiguities in the concept of the subject which underlie these difficulties . |
| 15 | They celebrate not the facts of nature , but the transforming power of atmosphere and momentary effects of light . |
| 16 | Proceeding from the system of exchanges of energy and mass in the biosphere and between the atmosphere and land surface , they show how the functions of an ecosystem require a never-ending series of exchanges of energy , water , atmospheric gases and mineral nutrients between the organic and inorganic parts of the system . |
| 17 | Before you throw away the plastic strap which holds a four-pack of cans away , snip each ring the straps can end up in ponds and rivers , where they catch around the legs of waterfowl and wildlife , with potentially lethal consequences . |
| 18 | And you have to pay the little boys to guard your bikes otherwise they let down the tyres . |
| 19 | There is a marked difference in colour between the dusty grey-brown of these mounds and the bright , light blue colour they spread over the vineyards . |
| 20 | And they put up the flats , and I think I 'm right there , is about seven hundred dwellings . |
| 21 | Well they will have in a private school cos if they do n't have the pennies they put up the fees . |
| 22 | Three separate studios were used by the Brighton band during the past three months as they put together the tracks included on the new album . |
| 23 | The way they joke about their LP going to 207 ‘ with an anchor ’ , the way they break down the myths of the American Dream and the Troubles back home … |
| 24 | " They came up the streets towards the station , crowds of people , young men . |
| 25 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 26 | Egoistic traits may be expected to survive if they benefit also the descendants which inherit them , to be weeded out if they benefit the individual at the expense of its offspring ( for example , cannibalizing its brood , or long outlasting its reproductive powers ) ; altruistic traits will tend to survive if they benefit kin which are also transmitting them ( in particular , the mother 's protection of her young ) , to die out if they give the advantage to strangers which are not . |
| 27 | A meal would only cost five francs but they noticed how the prices went up if their escorts were American , English or Australian . |
| 28 | They lie around the edges of the Galaxy , and all are thousands of light-years away , so that they appear faint . |
| 29 | They tip out the ashtrays , swill unfinished drinks from plastic cups , rootle through the waste-paper baskets and empty them out . |
| 30 | The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead . |