Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 2 | When they launch themselves into the air they suddenly straighten their bodies and hollow out their lower surfaces . |
| 3 | Young albatrosses on the Leeward Islands spend many days flapping their wings to exercise their muscles and develop their strength , but when they launch themselves into the air , they have to get it right first time . |
| 4 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out . |
| 6 | They sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology . |
| 7 | It 's followed by more noise , sharp and ugly , as they drag him into the kitchen . |
| 8 | They 'll do anything to make you dependent on them , and then they drag you to the altar and call it love . ’ |
| 9 | They push themselves to the edge of exhaustion . |
| 10 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 11 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 12 | What is more , the Spirit who has become resident in the followers of Jesus mediates to them the victory over the world which Jesus had ( 4:4 ) as they trust him for the power to overcome temptation ( 5:3,4 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It makes you think , when you hear people call you Chariie as they sling you on the slab . ’ |
| 14 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 15 | Many couples stick with this covenant and the hope invested in it , and they make something of the struggle it entails . |
| 16 | Yeah they squeeze you off the road if you go up that hill to Hockerill lights . |
| 17 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 18 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 19 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 20 | They cushion themselves on the silence . |
| 21 | Often co-operating with reputable frying equipment manufacturers and suppliers , they test everything from the critical point at which a food product fries best , to the recovery times for oil temperatures . |
| 22 | Now , we you have neutrons and protons , they interact one with the other , but the particle that carries the interaction is not the photon , it 's the new particle called the meson , and you have got smaller particles , much less massive particles than neutrons and protons , and these are called mesons or pye mesons , and the pye meson has erm a mass which is typically a tenth of that of a proton . |
| 23 | And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |
| 24 | They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 25 | They place themselves on the same plane as trees or stones . |
| 26 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 27 | Though such rumours can not be proved , they are so endemic that they suggest something of the sort has been occurring . |
| 28 | She gets her friend and they sort of lock arms and sort of do a rugby scrum and they knock everybody out the way . |
| 29 | Stab the heel and they drip the blood out onto a piece of blotting paper and it dries and they send it to the laboratory and they punch it out and they examine it and they test it . |
| 30 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |