Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed strangely modern , suggestively effective as a sculpture by Picasso ; they lived in the now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They provide for the less committed who still wish to enjoy some of the fruits of the soccer culture . |
| 13 | What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ? |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | The only thing that could warp the way that the band goes is the media , because they lie for the most part ; they come up with their own reasons and their own interpretations and people just believe what they read . ’ |
| 16 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 17 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 18 | They differed in the seemingly trivial but nonetheless diagnostic character of having not one but two pairs of antennae on their heads . |
| 19 | They begin with the essentially sound premiss that no physical property that one might have is a logically sufficient condition of one having a particular experience . |
| 20 | Rather than try to impose large structures on what is happening from the outset , they begin at the most local level , trying to see how participants in interaction handle conversation : how they judge who can speak , and when . |
| 21 | As they turned into the straight on the first circuit Mill House , jumping like a buck , had the lead , with Arkle pulling hard in his wake and taking his fences superbly . |
| 22 | They turned on the newly arrived Marines in surprise , and yet with considerable ferocity , hurling themselves at the armed men , who coolly gunned them down , their machetes being no match for rifles . |
| 23 | if they would only produce the same styles that they produce for the up to size twelve . |
| 24 | Erm but they deal with the how much you can earn without affecting your pension . |
| 25 | They would cry with the pain of numbed fingers as they worked on the never ending piles of ore . |
| 26 | Without exception they had liked the role they played within the classroom and a remark by Joanne sums up how they felt about the more pupil-centred approach : |
| 27 | … they meant well — they felt kindly towards him , and acknowledged his provocations ; but they fell into the too common error of supposing that the finer feelings , which induce a man to prefer death to dishonour , are only to be recognised among the higher classes ; and that , because circumstances may have placed a man before the mast , he will undergo punishment , however severe , however degrading … in preference to death . |
| 28 | They point to the remarkably slow growth in the share of the non-marketable sector in the value of marketed output , rising from around 31% between 1955 and 1960 to only 33% between 1969 and 1973 . |
| 29 | They went into the either the upstairs room or the kitchen or somewhere , the door was shut and that was them . |
| 30 | They coexisted with the now somewhat depleted Byzantine empire but soon found themselves embroiled in the Crusader invasion at the end of the eleventh century , in the course of which were to emerge Baibars the Mamluk and the celebrated Kurdish warrior known as Salahuddin al-Ayyubi or Saladin . |