Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their first scene together , where Fluellen begins with a feeling of respect for Pistol 's bravery at the bridge ( how obtained we know not ) , they dispute about the iconography of the goddess Fortune , Pistol in verse , Fluellen in prose , more coherently ( III.vi.20–60 ) . |
| 2 | There also needs to be a plan for evaluating the project and the librarian and the teacher should discuss the evaluation of the pupils ' ability to use the microcomputer ( technical skills ) and their ability to make use of the information they gain from the microcomputer ( information skills ) . |
| 3 | They dance on the surface among the flies . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm the Great Anarch , ’ Piper said conversationally , ‘ I order the spheres as they dance in the vault of space . ’ |
| 5 | They say they dance in the sky at a carnival at the end of the world — have you seen them ? ’ |
| 6 | The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions . |
| 7 | We hear the haunting sounds of the Humpback whales as they communicate under the sea , across vast distances , but understand little or nothing of what is passing between them . |
| 8 | Therefore , they remain outside the treaty 's remit and safeguards , weak though they may be . |
| 9 | If they fail to answer a question correctly , they remain on the square they have reached but play passes to the next player . |
| 10 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 11 | Frequent whitewashing or repapering , like John Barton 's ‘ clean stencilled pattern ’ , is often alluded to , no doubt because it made damp and derelict rooms look fresh and dry but that is the way that they remain for the reader . |
| 12 | The Library issues floras on loan to staff on condition that they remain in the building , and accessible to other Library users during normal working hours . |
| 13 | David Preece scored the second-half goal that earned them their first win in seven games and , though they remain in the bottom three , they do have a chance of making the Premier League . |
| 14 | Luton have lost only four League games at home this season and , though they remain in the bottom three , they are only five points behind Coventry . |
| 15 | For the proximo-distal axis , our suggestion is that the cells learn their position by measuring how long they remain in the progress zone , a mechanism based on measuring time . |
| 16 | The cells in the progress zone seem to be able to measure how long they remain in the progress zone and this enables them to , ‘ know ’ their position along the proximo-distal axis . |
| 17 | From these , it is clear that a buyer can be owner of the goods even though he has not paid for them and even though they remain in the seller 's possession . |
| 18 | Since s. 2(2) OLA 1957 requires the occupier to take such care as is reasonable to see that visitors will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which they are invited or permitted by the occupier to be there , lawful visitors will be owed a duty only in so far as they remain within the scope of their invitation or permission to be on the premises . |
| 19 | Another species , however , has only about twenty young but provides them with more yolk each and they remain within the sac until they become froglets . |
| 20 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 21 | Fortunately , the bias against other accents and dialects has waned in recent years and today they are appreciated for the variety they bring to the language . |
| 22 | This is true even though they bring to the search the knowledge they already possess about how spoken language works . |
| 23 | The glory of the audio-visual media is the contribution they bring to the teacher 's communication skills . |
| 24 | John Ricks , a farmer near Colchester , says his onions cost 9p a lb wholesale ; packing and transport costs 10p ; they sell in the supermarket for 29p . |
| 25 | They grin at the idea , crinkling their noses in mock distaste , suggesting that the monastic life holds no attraction for them . |
| 26 | One attempt to model only critical variables which determine yield has been made by Stocking and Pain ( 1983 ) where they concentrate upon the impact of erosive forces upon the availability of minimum moisture levels . |
| 27 | The European grants , correctly assigned to Northern Ireland due to its isolation within the market and its relative poverty , should not be gobbled up by parsimonious Treasury Ministers as they hide behind the concept of additionality . |
| 28 | They hide in the birch forests and in the Ural Mountains . |
| 29 | They graze through the monsoon and return to their homeland in September . |
| 30 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |