Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 2 | For a more curly effect , tong smaller sections of hair then run your fingers through the curls to separate them out |
| 3 | It is expecting a great deal of the courts to ask them to review the operational judgment of a chief of police who indicates that he reasonably believes that his forces are insufficient to prevent serious public disorder or serious damage to property . |
| 4 | Police fired warning shots over the heads of the demonstrators to disperse them , but this angered the crowd , and several thousand people marched on Skanderbeg Square . |
| 5 | Professor Sir John Cadogan , chairman of the research council which advised the council on the allocations , said : ‘ We went straight to the heads of the institutions to ask them what were their best bets for boosting the numbers of their top-notch research ratings . |
| 6 | The completion of the exercises involves them in an active learning experience . |
| 7 | There simply was n't enough stock in the shops to give them any real choice . |
| 8 | After the cab had departed he 'd returned to the body search ; a couple of rough-looking kids came sneaking up the alley for purposes unknown , but a long , low growl from the shadows sent them running . |
| 9 | The tension in the films draws them towards minimum surface area . |
| 10 | Pull up the lining to fit the size of the outer curtain and insert the curtain hooks , first into the lining tape then into the standard tape on the curtains to hang them on a conventional track . |
| 11 | One of the other highlights this week is a salute to George Romero ( who sent a message of thanks to the organisers urging them to ‘ Stay Scared ’ ) . |
| 12 | He sat silent for a moment , glancing with a look of displeasure at the cars jamming them in on either side . |
| 13 | We dragged the man free and Warren drove the car at the dogs to box them in the alleyway so they could not escape . |
| 14 | But the chairman of the magistrates saiod they viewed the offences very seriously and found Mr Righton a total of £900 plus £75 costs . |
| 15 | Tony it was who persuaded the village people to take advantage of the benefits offered them — meals cooked on washing-day , for instance , and the simple lessons in pianoforte and painting that Susan and Breeze had suggested giving . |
| 16 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 17 | But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary . |
| 18 | This too is a good way of providing learners with extended exposure to the target language with the support of the subtitles to help them keep pace with the plot . |
| 19 | Often the height and fast bipedalism of the carnosaurs enabled them to tower over the extremely well-protected horned ceratopsians , and simply seize them from above with a powerfully armed mouth . |
| 20 | The plans of the groups enable them to be identified with those shown on large-scale Ordnance Survey maps , except for those sites subsequently ploughed out , which often survived as ring-ditches . |
| 21 | Pieper tried and failed to get hold of the outfits to brief them and to gauge their reaction . |
| 22 | Weights were placed at all the corners of the sketches to stop them springing back into tight rolls . |
| 23 | Squeezed between the conflicting pressures from their own nobles and from the Hungarians and Venetians , and with the ever present menace of the Turks threatening them from the south , they gradually sank into oblivion . |
| 24 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 25 | This expansive interpretation of the duties of the parties requires them to make decisions with respect to the behaviour of States which have themselves incurred no obligations under the same Convention . |
| 26 | Parents of the children said they had made ‘ remarkable progress ’ through Budapest 's conductive education programmes . |
| 27 | The large time-of-flight of the ions disperses them according to their energy : highest-energy ions arrive first in the atmosphere and are seen at the lowest latitudes . |
| 28 | Identification with the masses brought them the people 's problems — tuberculosis , malnutrition , diarrhoea and dehydration . |
| 29 | A lucky win against Aurillac in the play-offs secured them a place among the last 32 . |
| 30 | There is no evidence that the judges at any time protested to Her Majesty 's government in or out of Parliament against the proposals to involve them directly and indirectly in the administration of the act of 1971 . |