Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 2 | Since then the personnel committee have considered the report , and they agreed to the recommendations in paragraph 7(a) , 1,3 and 4 , but the third paragraph , 7(a) ( 2 ) to . |
| 3 | But Jean Orr , Professor of Nursing , Queen 's University Belfast and one of the authors of the report , emphasised community staff still had ‘ a lot of energy ’ for students and they agreed with the principles of Project 2000 . |
| 4 | There are two reasons for this diversity : microphones have differing pick-up characteristics depending on their intended use ; and they differ in the ways in which they convert sound into electrical signals . |
| 5 | And they came to the manufacturers and they said look we , there 's no good producing fifty dozen a week on a machine it 's not |
| 6 | All three have been members of Middlesbrough council since it was formed in 1974 and they served on the authorities which preceded it . |
| 7 | According to Muslim reports , the preachers used visual adds : " Among other things they made a picture showing the Messiah , and an Arab striking him , showing blood on the face of Christ — blessings on Him ! — and they said to the crowds : " This is the Messiah , struck by Mahomet the prophet of the Muslims , who has wounded and killed him . " " |
| 8 | She looked up at him and they kissed on the lips , this time not frivolously , but full of heat and passion . |
| 9 | And they met in the woods where Robert was murdered . |
| 10 | He ran into the night , followed by Heg , and they vanished among the tombstones . |
| 11 | What the ovules do is they stay in the grasses and they wait for the pollens to arrive . |
| 12 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 13 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 14 | Cobalt joined the coast road and they roared along the ramparts of the ancient town . |
| 15 | After a further period four queens and then four aces came along and they got in the beds too . |
| 16 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 17 | If the new , friendlier systems do come onto the market , and if they 're bought as presents and so on , and they get into the homes and they get into the schools , then people will just learn to use them , and it 's the existing professionals who may have to change their habits to accommodate . |
| 18 | If the new , friendlier systems do come onto the market , and if they 're bought as presents and so on , and they get into the homes and they get into the schools , then people will just learn to use them , and it 's the existing professionals who may have to change their habits to accommodate . |
| 19 | The cloak fell away from her , and they walked along the ramparts to the catwalk stairs , the air cool on their hot faces . |
| 20 | and they go over the fields . |
| 21 | like that and they go round the windows . |
| 22 | There 'd been assumptions , had n't there , made very happily and very easily , and they smashed into the buffers . |
| 23 | Once or twice he thought he heard footsteps approaching in the distance and they hid in the shadows until deciding it was safe to continue . |
| 24 | ‘ Climb ! ’ hissed Cardiff again , and they started up the stairs once more . |
| 25 | With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs . |
| 26 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 27 | Newspapers were quietly folded and they headed for the hills . |
| 28 | When it was over and they climbed from the cars Danny needed a considerable amount of calming as his excitement seemed to have reached a peak . |
| 29 | As receiving theatres they do not attract direct Arts Council funding , but they benefit from the Arts Council 's support for touring which enables more distinctive and varied programmes to be mounted . |
| 30 | But they swarm at the windows in such numbers they black out the light and the air . |