Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 2 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 3 | Two years later they successfully appealed against the ruling in the High Court … and now Mr Gilberthorpe 's been told he 's too late bring the case to court again . |
| 4 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 5 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 6 | Possibly they are apt to become too ambitious — they rarely succumb to the disease of ‘ fontitis ’ but are only too apt to have bad attacks of ‘ linkitis ’ and ‘ activitis ’ . |
| 7 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 8 | The Sunshine Girls were the only troupe to travel as far as St Petersburg and Budapest but it was noticeable that they rarely worked at the Winter Gardens which was Jennie 's stronghold . |
| 9 | It is not that the advocates of these approaches to the curriculum take different views of the nature of society , but that they fundamentally differ regarding the purposes of education . |
| 10 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 11 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 12 | They duly arrived at the perimeter wire of the airfield and to their left they noticed a pair of Italian sentries manning a roadblock . |
| 13 | Sadly , the beautiful old yacht Honey Bee was only going to Cruibh Haven but they keenly solicited around the basin on my behalf . |
| 14 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 15 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 16 | In Covent Garden , Luttrell tells us , " the image of the French king was made and drawn in a chariot , and over his head in capital letters was wrott , Lewis the greatest tyrant of fourteen " , which they eventually committed to the flames . |
| 17 | A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution , but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927 . |
| 18 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 19 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 20 | They eventually came into the possession of the picture agency Popperfoto , now based in our region . |
| 21 | Bashir Gemayel 's Phalange and Dany Chamoun 's Tigers provided thousands of them , mostly civilians , when they eventually broke into the camp in August . |
| 22 | Trying out various ideas they eventually settled on the use of a Ring Modulator , which sets up a low frequency hum breaking up speech patterns into juddery , intermittent tones . |
| 23 | His troops were left outside that city throughout the entire bitter winter of 1942–1943 , resulting in the loss of a quarter of a million German troops when they eventually surrendered to the Russians on 2nd , February 1943 . |
| 24 | They only get in the way when you 're using a keyboard and anyway they 're easy to get off because the glue 's not up to much . |
| 25 | They only heard about the decision yesterday afternoon . |
| 26 | The world has an image of this country as democratic , the Switzerland of Central America , and when the tourists come , they only go to the beautiful parts , but they do n't go to other parts like Batan , Limón , Los Chiles , the peasant [ communities ] in the southern zone , where people live in difficult situations . |
| 27 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 28 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 29 | In other words , they only respond to the differential of input signal waveforms to create single transistor hi-pass filters . |
| 30 | Now , these are examples of positional isomers just using ordinary groups they only differ in the position of those functional groups , sorry , of those groups . |