Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They jerk in surrender to the pulse of Fole 's hammerskins , the tremulous yodelling of Tumblejack 's voice . |
| 2 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 3 | JUST WHAT Arsenal might have achieved in Europe this season must remain a matter for speculation , but as they sit on top of the Premier League today manager George Graham insists on thinking ahead rather than looking back . |
| 4 | For now they sit like shareholders at the annual general meeting of a company whose profits have fallen on last year 's . |
| 5 | ‘ I would prefer to see the medical charities emphasizing the large amount of research they sponsor into alternatives to the use of animals , rather than making a big fuss out of this ’ , says Michael Balls , chairman of the trustees of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , and until recently professor of medical cell biology at the University of Nottingham . |
| 6 | For example , besides assuming Cézanne 's high viewpoint , Picasso now often continues the outlines of walls or buildings at slightly different levels or angles as they appear at intervals behind the objects in the foreground . |
| 7 | Army psychologists are attempting to curb fear among troops , used to life in the cities along Australia 's eastern seaboard , of the vast , still space they encounter during operations in the Outback |
| 8 | If possible they sleep in cots near the computer . ’ |
| 9 | Instead they send to Shiloh for the ark . |
| 10 | What is most striking about such groupings is that they provide for careers on the football terraces . |
| 11 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 12 | They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed . |
| 13 | As the above example shows , they depend in part on the context of the interaction . |
| 14 | Trent 's an obnoxious , contrary bugger at the best of times , as the lyrical concerns show — in between the obligatory expletives , they range from hate through the sub-Nietzschian ideas of cultural slavery and , well , back to hate again . |
| 15 | They range in size from the small corner shop ( like the one on Coronation Street ) to huge hypermarkets like Asda and Tesco . |
| 16 | They act as guardians of the public purse when dealing with members of spending departments who seek additional resources . |
| 17 | They act as agents of the company and must exercise reasonable skill and care in the performance of their duties consistent with the level of their knowledge and experience . |
| 18 | In figure 7.6 the capacitances to earth are represented as lumped together from nodes A , B , C and D. Notice that if nothing is done about these capacitances , they act in pairs across the arms of the bridge ; for example , the reactance of C A in series with that of C B is in parallel with the impedance Z 1 . |
| 19 | There is , then , a reciprocal relationship between grammar and lexis : they act in concert in the discharge of their semantic duties . |
| 20 | They roar with laughter at the funny bits . |
| 21 | They function in spite of the system , only because of the enormous professional devotion of their staffs . |
| 22 | The anxiety , hardship and distress suffered by people as they wait for decisions from the Home Office are obvious to anyone . |
| 23 | They consist of projections of the plasmalemma extending out from the surface of the organism . |
| 24 | Rather , they consist of statements about the nature of villages , country parishes and communities . |
| 25 | And they er adopted a scheme last year when they cut off part of the high street from traffic . |
| 26 | They tune into satellite for the extra choice , not the quality of programmes . |
| 27 | They vary in capacity from the hand held 2 litre version to the back-pack mounted 25 litre sprayer . |
| 28 | They vary in strength from the sophisticated First World centres , through important Third World cities , like Cairo and Mexico City , to nominal presences in some of the poorer African and Asian countries . |
| 29 | They seem to date from the early sixth century , and while some are pure Greek others are almost purely oriental : a late phase of ‘ orientalising ’ . |
| 30 | They look at photos of the holiday . |