Example sentences of "they [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And they were glad of them during the war . |
| 32 | There is no place , for example , where we can have a coffee-break with them during the morning . |
| 33 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 34 | The plants here have a dense but high canopy of leaves over them during the summer ; so , apart from the odd shaft of sunlight , the conditions are overcast but not dark . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | You may see them during the summer when they rest in Britain . |
| 37 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 38 | Based on initial assessment of application , finalists will be chosen and specially trained teams of assessors will pay on-site visits to them during the summer . |
| 39 | You can choose either a fixed or a floating interest rate at the start and can switch between them during the loan . |
| 40 | Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century . |
| 41 | In addition to the UK trader 's own details and other header information , the ESL is a record of sales to EC customers , distinguished by their own VAT numbers and total value of sales made to them during the calendar quarter . |
| 42 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 43 | The Canadian dissenters also said that information was withheld from them during the investigation . |
| 44 | Moreover , individuals in a population will change in unison , with very little genetic variation between them during the period of change . |
| 45 | ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply . |
| 46 | To many this scene would have been unnerving and unsettling , particularly to those who knew them during the period known as the past . |
| 47 | I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’ |
| 48 | Although these patients may have used bronchodilators intermittently in the past for control of asthma , none required them during the week before endoscopy . |
| 49 | Liverpool get a penalty — ‘ suprise suprise ’ ( especially as they had a pen against them during the week , one of very few no doubt ) . |
| 50 | As she had n't returned for them during the week they would have to be returned to her — via Lowell . |
| 51 | It 's usually the last Saturday of the half term because then she can have them during the week to practise . |
| 52 | She really was more than half-minded to take them downstairs again and post them through the hole in the mahogany skirting board of the dining-room where they could lie in wait for crumbs of bread and cheese and apple peels that she would be careful to drop … |
| 53 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 54 | Constructed for the most part in terms of a technology that was , by comparison with the main technologies of the nineteenth century , primitive and unsystematic , there were few really significant improvements to them through the century and by 1900 they provided no semblance of a genuine transport service . |
| 55 | They would.become animals , ferocious , feral , fervent in their lust for the sap of life to sustain them through the cold . |
| 56 | They collected their horses from the stables and led them through the cold , bustling streets . |
| 57 | The factual circumstances that can arise are infinite and the judges rely on a mixture of legal principle , policy and common sense to guide them through the maze . |
| 58 | Customs have now announced a change to the way the second hand scheme for cars operates , so that second hand car dealers who acquire cars from these businesses may continue to sell them through the scheme . |
| 59 | I can see them through the reflection . |
| 60 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |