Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 2 | A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats . |
| 3 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 4 | There was always a scramble to obtain them after the meeting . |
| 5 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 6 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 7 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 8 | A manacle secures them to the Dubrovlag . |
| 9 | A heavy door swung open and a figure beckoned them into a warm lozenge of light . |
| 10 | She did not focus on the actual wording of the questions , and as a result answered them in a rather uncritical way . |
| 11 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 12 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 13 | Then he organised a coach to bring them to a new life in Britain . |
| 14 | A butterfly sticks them on the leaves of the particular plant that her caterpillars eat ; a blowfly on the dead flesh that her maggots will relish ; and some wasps , for the sake of their young , become body-snatchers . |
| 15 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 16 | Similarly there is no liability if a railway company , acting upon A 's directions , carries B's goods , honestly believing that A has B's authority to give such directions or , of course , where a finder removes them to a place of safety . |
| 17 | A guard ushered them into the Beauchamp Tower and up into Mistress Philippa 's chamber on the second floor . |
| 18 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 19 | Britain had beaten Poland 4-3 in the World Championships Pool B in Eindhoven earlier this year , and the loss of a point leaves them with a formidable task against tournament favourites Latvia and Slovakia next week , with only one team qualifying for Lillehammer . |
| 20 | Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth . |
| 21 | The curtain of rain caught them up and in a moment soaked them to the skin . |
| 22 | Immediately after his infamous singlet and shorts press conference , French and Fordham woke Wallaby manager John Breen , coach Bob Dwyer and captain Nick Farr-Jones to a meeting to inform them of the happenings over the previous 12 hours . |
| 23 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 24 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 25 | Buyers are given assembly instructions and a video to help them in the building of their car , and Mr Nearn maintains that the kits are not difficult to put together . |
| 26 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
| 27 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
| 28 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 29 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 30 | But he proved right about the size of Switham Thicket , for a bare quarter of a mile brought them to the outskirts of the other side , and almost immediately the horse was turned into a walled aperture of crumbling stone , its high , rusty iron gates wide open . |