Example sentences of "they [verb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Piagetian terms they assimilated the language to what they knew , yet managed to preserve at least part of the meaning . |
| 2 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
| 3 | Because they lacked the capacity for complete cultural and political hegemony , he argues , not all elements in the movement were assimilated . |
| 4 | Orient , like Rovers promoted from the Fourth Division last May , made few telling incursions into the penalty area where they lacked the pace of the home team 's Malkin and Morrissey , though their approach work was neat enough . |
| 5 | Much of this public criticism directed at practitioners , often reinforced and fuelled by the reports themselves , is that these tragedies and scandals have arisen because practitioners ‘ failed ’ , in part , because they lacked the knowledge about child abuse which a thorough grounding in the research and its findings would have given them . |
| 6 | The heterostracans were associated with the hagfishes , chiefly because they lacked the specializations of the nasohypophysial opening and because they have a single branchial opening ( see below ) . |
| 7 | World markets dominated their economies , and they lacked the means for independent national economic development . |
| 8 | Occasionally , knowing that all but two fieldsmen must patrol the area within the 30-yard circle centred around the stumps at each end , they chip the ball over their heads into the ‘ no-mans 's land ’ beyond them . |
| 9 | Do they damage the business of government by inhibiting confidentiality and honest private discussion ? |
| 10 | They fear the deterioration of the value of the pound against the dollar may mean Mr Outhwaite is poised to demand another £60 million in cash from them — cash calls totalling £168 million have already been paid . |
| 11 | Instinctively they fear the strength of the emotional ties with their mother , which could prevent them from becoming mature and independent men . |
| 12 | They fear the power of the example he set by completing a world record 87 marathons , in 13 different nations in the year to March 15 . |
| 13 | With frontier restrictions coming down all over Europe in 1992 , they fear the sort of epidemic that has been sweeping the rest of the continent . |
| 14 | Carers say they fear the impact of VAT on fuel as many are already struggling to survive . |
| 15 | They pierced the fabric of our universe ; like a gunshot that ripped open the whole of space and time . |
| 16 | On 9–10 December Commonwealth delegates from Chicago moved on to Montreal , where they announced the formation of the Commonwealth Air Transport Council , a forum for the exchange of views and co-ordination of air operations . |
| 17 | On January 24th they announced the signing of the ‘ Honiara accord ’ . |
| 18 | When they announced the closure of the North and South Works , things were very uncertain . |
| 19 | They announced the sale of the lease to a brand new company called Inn Business Ltd . |
| 20 | They announced the engagement in November 1941 . |
| 21 | They countered the threat by inviting only safe theologians — largely Rome-based — to sit on the preparatory commissions . |
| 22 | They lowered blood pressure in patients with hypertension , prevented irregularities of the heartbeat which might be caused by adrenaline , reduced mortality after coronary thrombosis , and , perhaps most importantly of all , they revealed the complexity of the factors which control cardiac activity in man , and the difficulties of predicting the effects drugs will have without first carrying out extensive and detailed experiments , both in the laboratory and in the clinic . |
| 23 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 24 | They camouflaged the vehicles in a wadi and dispersed in search of shade and some sleep . |
| 25 | They dispute the stereotype of the ageing lecher , popularised in Malcolm Bradbury 's The History Man . |
| 26 | And they kill from spite : they despise the colour of another 's skin and resent the way another worships God . |
| 27 | They owned the lease of Covent Garden and had plans to reopen the Opera House and stage Grimes there . |
| 28 | They lay the child with his head down and slap his chest to help drain the lungs . |
| 29 | Krashen 's ( 1981 ) views are particularly relevant to the study of BSL , not only because they lay the base for a fundamental re-examination of teaching methods ( see appendix 2 ) but because they allow us to understand more clearly the language learning problems of BSL acquirers . |
| 30 | ‘ The Miletti family have made a statement in which they lay the blame for the murder squarely on the shoulders of the police , ’ the woman began . |