Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're canned , they taste exactly the same , says Sly . |
| 2 | Anyway , they taste much the same , and last year beetroot soup was added to the menu . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly some will be unable to cope with this emphasis on self-management because they lack either the intelligence or perhaps , more importantly , the motivation to do so . |
| 4 | Sadly , they lack both the elegant wit of the eastern intelligentsia and the street-irony of those who do not share their advantages . |
| 5 | Despite many attempts to provide alternatives they remain however the most effective way of restoring dull finishes particularly on aluminium utensils . |
| 6 | They remain precisely the same . |
| 7 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 8 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 9 | representative : they enable all relevant interests to be involved in the decision-making process and they bring together the specialised knowledge of working people into a working combination ; |
| 10 | these wee pencil brushes that colouring in bring out different er sort of , you know , knots and you know they bring in the pencil |
| 11 | WALES skipper Gareth Llewellyn hopes his side can reach their target of six wins out of six when they bring down the curtain on their African tour against the South African Barbarians in Windhoek today . |
| 12 | They bring home the inequality of material conditions : at the one extreme old men in filthy lodgings chopping a few sticks to keep warm , and at the other the lady of the manor supported by servants and a companion in her immaculate drawing-room . |
| 13 | But above all they bring home the fragility of human power to rescue us from despair and the absence of hope . |
| 14 | ‘ Individually , they are very nice children , ’ says John , ‘ but put them together and they bring out the worse in each other — like football supporters . ’ |
| 15 | They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition . |
| 16 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 17 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 18 | Once spinning , they are difficult to stop , and they flash down the slopes in a series of great leaps and bounds , making a loud whirring noise , and travel sometimes for hundreds of metres . |
| 19 | But they raise again the issue of how one assesses the importance of different forms of organization within an economy and society , and especially in what sense , and when , it is possible to say that a particular form of organization dominates a system . |
| 20 | The biters are usually the easiest to detect because they eat away the foliage . |
| 21 | The poison develops a little time after the leaf has sprouted , so the monkeys can avoid the worst of it if they eat only the youngest leaves . |
| 22 | I like them because they push back the boundaries . |
| 23 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 24 | Most lampreys are filter-feeders as young and ectoparasitic blood-suckers as adults , whereas hagfishes are predators or they rasp away the flesh of dead or moribund fishes . |
| 25 | The next Friday they load up the bus and set off for Oxford . |
| 26 | The warders and the trusties from Internal Order are at the doors of the huts , and the zeks are pitched out into the night darkness and spill to the perimeter path , and like an ant trail they wind around the compound for what is classified as Exercise . |
| 27 | Also , the z-axis is invariant under the flow , so any periodic orbits in the system can be partially described by an integer n specifying the number of times that they wind around the z-axis . |
| 28 | Alert for scraps of anything edible , they congregate around the slaughterhouse or sewer outlets and they probably deserve their local name of ‘ stinker ’ ! |
| 29 | Processes which govern the ability of the terminal to respond during sustained activity , such as the synthesis of transmitter , the transport and filling of vesicles and their release from the cytoskeletal cage , will contribute to LTP only to the extent that they influence either the probability of fusion , or the amount of transmitter packed into vesicles . |
| 30 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |