Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographer Linda persuaded Paul to bare all soon after they met in the late Sixties . |
| 2 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 3 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 4 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |
| 5 | The CFCs are reasonably safe while they remain in the leakproof sealed units but not so when fridges are dumped and crushed . |
| 6 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 7 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 8 | True , they led to the old Naval Dockyard but that did not generate many heavy goods vehicles and probably none at night . |
| 9 | But to the Mesolithic hunter-nomads they formed a forest kingdom , a race of forest creatures , saviours , oracles , and tormentors all at the same time ; they arose in the mythogenic unconscious both to explain nature 's hostility to the people 's actions , and to express the hope of survival against the unknown . |
| 10 | They correspond to the ventral basal muscles of the maxilla . |
| 11 | Self-help schemes provide Latin American governments with a cheap solution for housing the poor , but the contribution they make to the wider socio-economic structure is more far-reaching . |
| 12 | But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years . |
| 13 | Them perverts , they pick on the nice innocent girls . |
| 14 | There are new flat roof systems about which are supposed to be better , but they suffer from the same inherent disadvantages as their earlier counterparts . |
| 15 | ‘ What did they think of the electronic tagging idea ? ’ |
| 16 | They stopped outside the tall grey house in Hampstead , made subtle and mysterious today by the autumn mists ; the garden , where laurels grew with a lawn beyond , was wreathed in evanescent white . |
| 17 | In summer they swam in the heated outdoor swimming pool , looked for frogs and newts , picnicked on the beach near their private hut at Brancaster and played in their very own tree house . |
| 18 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
| 19 | Nor did they know of the old Swedish experiments attempting to make helium from hydrogen in the laboratory . |
| 20 | Labour members , though generally more committed to old-age pensions , free school meals and redistributive taxation than Liberals and considerably more so than Conservatives , gave greater primacy in their election addresses to unemployment and hours of work , which they regarded as the major social issues . |
| 21 | As a result of all this they realised that to complete the measurements on the range of electrodes and to see how they depend on the other experimental conditions would take nearly three years . |
| 22 | They range from the robust Alaskan strains to the now endangered Florida Everglades mink , and include the western shore-dwelling variety , which is still commonly seen scavenging the beaches of California . |
| 23 | They played in the dark est part of the street where they could not be seen , but it was not difficult to guess who they were . |
| 24 | For these the primary schools provided a gentle haven before they transferred to the local secondary modern school . |
| 25 | They walk on the two middle ones ; the outside ones hardly ever touch the ground . |
| 26 | ‘ I reckon I 've got him sussed , ’ Candy announced triumphantly as they drove through the empty late-night streets towards Candy 's flat . |
| 27 | It shows , say the authors , what a spanking investment the politicians are making with every cent of public money they put into the three big museums . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's the calm sea , ’ he pointed out the inlet that ran to Ballysadare as they came along the narrow twisting road into Strandhill . |
| 29 | So they came to the great Roman Wall , at Birdoswald , built to keep out their Pictish ancestors a thousand years before . |
| 30 | They came from the right hon. Member for Brent , North ( Sir R. Boyson ) ; from the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ; from the hon. Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. |