Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay for a little , amicably holding hands . |
| 2 | They lived in a rather similar house in Harpenden , a village five miles further north . |
| 3 | They lived in a very small house at the end of a long , grey street . |
| 4 | They seemed strangely modern , suggestively effective as a sculpture by Picasso ; they lived in the now . |
| 5 | Bush visited Japan on Jan. 7-10 and held several sessions of talks with the beleaguered Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , when they agreed on a vaguely worded Tokyo Declaration which expressed the commitment of the two countries to work together in support of a new world order . |
| 6 | Inevitably they led to the totally unnecessary deaths of many pet cats , as jittery owners took emergency steps to protect themselves from the dreaded twentieth-century plague . |
| 7 | and they sold at a very low price and |
| 8 | I think it is important to remember that if they complied with the properly doc adopted and formulated town plan then the permission would have been granted , obviously subject to details and . |
| 9 | But whatever they assimilated from other cultures and traditions , they applied in a specifically Judaic context . |
| 10 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 11 | The London boroughs and metropolitan districts closely resembled the unitary authorities but they operated in a quite different regional context from that intended by the Royal Commission . |
| 12 | Stopping , slowing and playing are the diplomatic solutions , but multiplied by the numbers of dogs in most local parks , they make for a badly interrupted run . |
| 13 | This comment in a recent ILO/UNCTC study of EPZs in the Caribbean is very typical : ‘ In spite of the small number of jobs generated so far , the rate at which EPZs create employment is , however , so high that they rank as the most dynamic agents for job creation compared with other sources of national employment ’ ( Long , 1986 , p.60 ) . |
| 14 | This despite the increasingly apocalyptic talk about the inflation and unemployment that would arrive with the launch on new year 's day of a set of economic reforms : price liberalisation , the sale of small businesses and internal convertibility of the crown ( meaning that Czechoslovak firms licensed to conduct foreign trade can now buy as much foreign currency as they want at the newly unified exchange rate ) . |
| 15 | But , on the other hand , they ranged to the equally fervent , though dissatisfied Masden , the Jesuit who described the earlier works as catalogues of the ‘ perfidy , perjury and brazen deeds of Rodrigo Diaz . ’ |
| 16 | Reacting both against existing conditions in Russia and against the prospect of capitalist development they built upon the specifically Russian socialism adumbrated by the Petrashevtsy and spelled out by Herzen . |
| 17 | For they concentrated on a very formal identification of local politics . |
| 18 | Immediately on his return from Gosol , while Gertrude Stein was still in Italy , he repainted the face , using the conventions of Iberian sculpture , although , since he was anxious to achieve a likeness , they appear in a slightly modified form . |
| 19 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 20 | It does , however , provide a useful introductory focus on Hilton 's breadth of appeal , and also on his understanding of the terms " active " and " contemplative " as they appear in the more sophisticated books of The Scale . |
| 21 | In an exhausting , exhilarating fortnight , they moved round the country triumphing gloriously at Cheshire , being demoralized at Cirencester , where they drew against a vastly inferior team , cockahoop at Kirtlington , and nearly coming unstuck at Windsor , where Perdita was sent off for swearing , so Rutshire had to play the last chukka with only three men , and only just won . |
| 22 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 23 | The party machines were crooked , but at least they provided for the to-and-fro of political patronage in ways that left the mayor , as chief executive , relatively free to run the city . |
| 24 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 25 | They provide for the less committed who still wish to enjoy some of the fruits of the soccer culture . |
| 26 | Indeed , Fabia was still wondering how the deuce he had got her talking about music when they transferred to an equally gracious and charming dining-room . |
| 27 | What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ? |
| 28 | In the park , after a long , sporadically talkative meal , they walk with a more even step , the long avenue of silver birch trees ahead of them straightening their path after the awkward descent from the main road . |
| 29 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 30 | They they put on a very good show and they brought a splendid bus to show |