Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assembled friends were told by Brendan Bracken in tones of wonderment that Churchill — that great Francophile — had rung to bellow that he would watch them die without a qualm if they ‘ ratted on Poland as they had ratted on Czechoslovakia , ’ while Bob Boothby told them repeatedly how he had exhorted Winston to ‘ break Chamberlain and take his place ’ . |
| 2 | Ellwood watched them get into the VW and drive towards the slip-road . |
| 3 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 4 | The rest of us watched them disappear among the trees and then continued on the broader path , climbing slowly . |
| 5 | ( Hence when the evangelist has the women discover the empty tomb , he does not have them witness to the resurrection but rather go and tell the men . ) |
| 6 | It took different forms ; , but all of them turn on the idea that ‘ God ’ means something like ‘ supremely perfect being ’ , and that supreme perfection must include the fact of actual existence . |
| 7 | The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions . |
| 8 | Another species , however , has only about twenty young but provides them with more yolk each and they remain within the sac until they become froglets . |
| 9 | Instead they concentrate on the interests that lie behind the positions . |
| 10 | They graze on the algae that grow on the coral . |
| 11 | They graze through the monsoon and return to their homeland in September . |
| 12 | They pounce on the man that appears whoever he is . |
| 13 | It looks as if the two books were not conceived as a single entity although they interrelate in the way that Hilton picks up and elaborates aspects of the subject of Scale 1 in Scale 2 . |
| 14 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 15 | When disturbed , they make for a crevice or hole where they can jam themselves in so tight with their powerful claws that it is almost impossible to dislodge them . |
| 16 | They pick on an accountant because an accountant needs a good name and has been partly in control of the funds anyway . |
| 17 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 18 | Boys who feel backward grow backward , even when they are not , for they suffer from the illusion that by nature they can not solve the problems set to them . |
| 19 | Although it is possible to use such languages as problem-solving ‘ tools ’ , they suffer from the limitation that considerable expertise is needed to use them freely and effectively . |
| 20 | Bodybuilders can obtain relief from vitamin C for the aches and pains they suffer in the shoulders and elbows . |
| 21 | The pictures in the book are a useful stimulus because they hint at the disasters and yet allow the children to flesh out the world of the carpenters , the gardeners , the cooks , the soldiers , the furniture makers ( perhaps using small pieces of fabric to indicate who they are ) . |
| 22 | The age of trees can easily be calculated if they grow in an environment where there are distinct seasons . |
| 23 | Quite often , you will find that bush and shrub roses have been cut back to maybe half their height in order to reduce the overall size so that they fit into the sack or bag — perhaps to get this through the postal system . |
| 24 | Right they 're getting everything they want at the moment because erm er ease the situation . |
| 25 | They testify to the fact that a colossal amount of wealth passed through royal hands , and it is therefore not surprising that control of the royal treasury was a significant factor in Merovingian politics . |
| 26 | ‘ Sand martins also suffer from fleas , which wait at the lip of the nest , and if a shadow passes , they leap in the hope that it 's a sand martin . |
| 27 | However as Levi points out , different official agencies use these powers in a manner which is related to the level of tolerance they expect from the media and politicians . |
| 28 | Yet if they report to a GP or social worker with complaints about this , they risk being written off as neurotic middle-aged women . |
| 29 | Whether the words are printed , typed or handwritten ; whether they appear on a screen or on different types and qualities of paper ; whether a ‘ text ’ occurs as a separate item , as part of an academic journal , or in a book or an encyclopaedia ; how the page is laid out , the extent to which it is broken up by illustrations , headings , and the use of different typefaces . |
| 30 | The ordinary hyphen is used between words that are hyphenated wherever they appear in a line and when those words would be split by a line-ending at the hyphen-point : eg well-known , time-consuming , up-to-date . |