Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 3 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 5 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |
| 6 | Hold them there for a few moments ( see Fig. 11 ) . |
| 7 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
| 8 | Well if they come round to ours this year I 'll invite them in I 'll take them to my basement and I 'll lock 'em up for a few days . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 10 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 11 | The next day , place the black fondant tiles all over the roof , in neat overlapping rows , securing them on with a little water or royal icing . |
| 12 | This simply involves marking out a small area , collecting and marking all the dogwhelks within it , releasing them again into the same area . |
| 13 | Like those of neighbouring Bouzy , they possess qualities somewhere between the solid , full-bodied and strongly perfumed Verzenay and the smooth , exceptionally aromatic Aÿ but their great strength and vinosity edges them closer to the former than the latter . |
| 14 | John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m . |
| 15 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 16 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 17 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
| 18 | He left Kathleen to strap the toes together with a gauze swab between them to maintain the alignment , and then sent them off with a few coproxamol for the pain . |
| 19 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 20 | Dexter believed Jane Pargeter was more interested in David Parkin 's affair than she pretended : you ca n't be someone 's lover for three years and then cast them off with the same indifference as an old pair of socks . |
| 21 | As the group grew to 2,000 people I still knew the key people and was able to approach them even in the latter days when I was one of many . ’ |
| 22 | Then the company puts them back on the same job and they further injure themselves . |
| 23 | The Croats drove out the Serbs from Kupres this week and , according to eye-witnesses , wished them well with a few genocidal strokes . |
| 24 | This collaborative development project , involving most of the original researchers , has been producing training and other materials , trying them out in a few selected authorities , and also extending its dissemination networks in anticipation of the finished products . |
| 25 | He left them there for a few days , checking that the wasps still kept returning to their burrows . |
| 26 | The two latter poems describe states of physical illness , but I think it is not unfair to quote them along with the former because all three only express in an overt form what is often expressed throughout her work : the connection between purity and superiority , the connection between purity and death . |
| 27 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |
| 28 | I had thrown away my chances in life , pawned them off for a few cheap thrills . |
| 29 | They agreed to phase them out on the same timetable applying in their own countries , and faster than required by the Montreal Protocol ( the international agreement on protecting the ozone layer — see ED 52 ] . |