Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 2 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 3 | Nigel Buxton , 41 , swerved snarply across the road when he lifted both his hands off the wheel and ran them through his hair , Didcot magistrates heard . |
| 4 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 5 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 6 | Some people buy rare or difficult to keep animals as pets and donate them to zoos . |
| 7 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 8 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 9 | Consequently most of it is scored for orchestral accompaniment : to extract the songs and perform them with piano , either in a performance-art format , as does Angelina Réaux , or as a Liederabend like Carole Farley , is to present a one-dimensional aspect of the music and an ultimate disservice to the composer . |
| 10 | ‘ Hang 'em , burn 'em , torture 'em , throw 'em to the wolves , cut off their ears and nail 'em to the notice board , ’ shouted a particularly excited worshipper . |
| 11 | It 's back — Oz Clarke 's Wine Guide 1993 returns for its ninth year with a prediction : that Australian winemakers who know ‘ how to take a pile of sows ’ ears and turn them into silk purses ’ are taking over from the vineyards of Europe . |
| 12 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
| 13 | procedure for taking goods out of stock and transferring them to the shop floor |
| 14 | But , rather than pay cash , Novell will issue about 1.1 million new shares of Novell stock and trade them for existing USL stock . |
| 15 | It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry . |
| 16 | Look at the numbers on your card and match them against those following for Game 228 Day 1 . |
| 17 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 18 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 19 | breaking their legs and kicking them in their bollo I mean balls , in the , in the , in the |
| 20 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 21 | She lifted her legs and scissored them on his back . |
| 22 | He dragged at the covers and threw them over her . |
| 23 | Patrick pulled his hands out from beneath the covers and clasped them behind his head , his eyes on the ceiling . |
| 24 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 25 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code . |
| 27 | This is why cable and satellite technology must advance together ; reception centres in parts of Britain with a good view of the satellite could pick up the signals and relay them by cable into nearby homes . |
| 28 | Originally it was thought to give better protection to the crew ejecting at high speed and provide them with a ‘ shirt-sleeve ’ environment . |
| 29 | He has n't got to bath the kids and put them to bed . |
| 30 | Must go back to the kids and see them to the bus . |