Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hullo there , ’ said the doctor , greeting them as old acquaintances and introducing them to Lydia and Betty . |
| 2 | They can stop people , without prior basis of suspicion , ask them for personal details or question them about their knowledge of recent terrorist incidents . |
| 3 | There would be problems about fixing the boundaries of regional authorities and providing them with finance — a regional rate would scarcely be popular . |
| 4 | The urgent challenge now is to educate worldwide , to bring the relevance of gene-pool conservation down to earth , and to harness the energy of economic forces and team them up with long-term conservation . |
| 5 | And worse , before an extraction he used to clank about in a tin box , producing a series of hideous forceps and examining them , whistling softly , till he found the right one . |
| 6 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 7 | Traditional approaches to the problem of defining God 's nature have often concentrated upon running through a list of divine attributes and classifying them in various forms . |
| 8 | What about a chess-playing machine , programmed to examine the board and then ‘ imagine ’ thousands of possible moves and evaluate them in relation to each other ? |
| 9 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 10 | He compiled the first useful tables of travel times of seismic phases and used them to show that wave speeds increase smoothly with depth , up to a point where they suffer a sharp decrease , which he identified with the boundary of a central core ‘ possessing radically different physical properties ’ , though he did not conclude that the core was liquid . |
| 11 | Consequently , the next phase of collocation acquisition will be to create a set of uni-directional collocations and compare them with their bi-directional equivalent . |
| 12 | Quote : ‘ Conservation of lichens oftens means site preservation , identification of old trees and saving them from felling ’ . |
| 13 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 14 | To fill in the travelling time chant leaders are actively engaged in trying out new versions of old chants or making them up from scratch . |
| 15 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 16 | However , the Guardian of March 26 assessed that the Council 's composition suggested that " [ Gorbachev ] wants to bring on board a variety of different constituencies and force them to toe the line " . |
| 17 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 18 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 19 | Spread the nachips with a thickish layer of refried beans and place them in a grill pan on a rack . |
| 20 | I saved money on cot sheets because I bought a couple of king-size sheets and cut them up to make three cot sheets out of each one . |
| 21 | He has a scheme to take over a small number of simple churches and adapt them as retreats . |
| 22 | This can be accomplished by wisely releasing the creative potential of individual employees and empowering them to contribute to the goals of the corporation . |
| 23 | Use the template on this page to cut out lots of tiny Trefoils and stick them on to the bookmark . |
| 24 | If no assets registers exist which record values , then the task of taking an inventory of fixed assets and valuing them might be a huge and expensive one . |
| 25 | ‘ But we played a couple of soft ends and let them back into it , ’ said Belliss later . |
| 26 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 27 | It 's nothing to do with T N T or anything er at all , it 's just er they that organization has wro written to a number of large companies and asked them to er record er , so many , er tapes so they can analyse it . |
| 28 | They have to live with the fear of sudden attacks that leave them struggling to breathe . |
| 29 | They have to live with the fear of sudden attacks that leave them struggling to breathe . |
| 30 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |