Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 3 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 4 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 5 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 6 | He collected some and showed them to a friend who worked in the Geology Department of the Royal Museum , Chambers Street in Edinburgh . |
| 7 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 8 | She would put all the light clothes into one bag and all the dark into another and take them to the launderette in Pevsner Road . |
| 9 | In the end George ate all of his , but Libby faithfully saved a few and wrapped them in a paper bag . |
| 10 | erm so you know but you may find if you give , print off a few and give them to a few people over the weekend |
| 11 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 12 | Mount tubes as close to the front of cabinets as possible and shield them with a baffle or small valance or cornice attached to the bottom of units . |
| 13 | You should remove the cichlids as soon as possible and transfer them to a separate tank which is set-up specifically for African cichlids , or take them back to the place you bought them . |
| 14 | But it made sense to keep the running titles intact and transfer them as a set to another forme on its way to the press , saving a little of the compositor 's time . |
| 15 | If you need to keep them longer , rinse and pat dry and store them in a sealable container in the fridge . |
| 16 | They will need staking and tying to prevent damage from wind and when finished , lift , dry and store them in a frost-free shed for replanting the following year . |
| 17 | ‘ So , ’ Nathan pulled the towel from his shoulder and tossed it aside , ‘ after you 've tidied the galley , wipe the oilskins dry and hang them in the locker . |
| 18 | Bureaux are polled annually for suggestions for rewriting parts of the system and the IPG weights these and builds them into the plans . |
| 19 | Use a trowel to scoop up some of these and put them in a plastic bag . |
| 20 | Cut these and put them in a nice vase . |
| 21 | deeds For such orders , the court drafts these and sends them with a notice of appointment before the district judge to all parties not less than seven days before the appointment ( Ord 22 , r 7(1) — ( 5 ) ; otherwise the court simply prepares the orders and sends them out . |
| 22 | The council wants to renew these and extend them to the whole of those districts and also bring in Pimlico and Westbourne . |
| 23 | Regular use of a good cream helps keep hands soft and smooth and protects them from the onslaught of cold weather . |
| 24 | There , they are likely to listen sympathetically and you may be lucky and catch them on a quiet day . |
| 25 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |
| 26 | for the first crossover you take three stitches from the left and cross them with the three centre stitches . |
| 27 | Trace the promise Badges on page 31 and glue them onto the bookmark . |
| 28 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 29 | Although official records of dioxins date from the middle of last century , it was an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in Seveso in 1976 that catapulted them into the public arena . |
| 30 | Yet , there also appear dangers in resting content with proposing apparent similarities between past and present and leaving them on the table , as it were . |