Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 3 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 4 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 5 | His body shuddered , and then his tolerance disintegrated and he wrenched his arms free and wrapped them round her , holding her hard against him . |
| 6 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 7 | Miracles can and do happen , if we are willing to stop struggling and allow them into our lives . |
| 8 | But one can not help thinking that a far greater contribution to the preservation of the World 's rain forests would be made if companies could be persuaded to make their annual brochures less glossy and to print them on re-cycled paper . |
| 9 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 10 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 11 | The tasks themselves — typing , photocopying , collating , stapling — are not intrinsically interesting but doing them with others , who are eager for the same goal , is . |
| 12 | I used to roll them in my hand and get them warm and get them in my finger like that and shoot it down , and watch it go down er |
| 13 | Jermey 's aim is not to turn out chefs who can produce Chinese wedding feasts , but adventurous chefs who can borrow techniques where appropriate and incorporate them into their own style : ‘ They 'll see new ways of finishing dishes , new combinations of flavours . ’ |
| 14 | The potential for disaster lurks very close behind the bright shiny facade waiting to pounce on the unwary and relieve them of substantial sums of money . |
| 15 | This virulent loathing of women 's bodies continued during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the West : any expression of sexual desire by women was considered filthy , corrupt , sinful and marked them as whores , the daughters of Eve . |
| 16 | The Rev. Owen could therefore use sign language , and together with another clergyman , encouraged the young man to seek out as many local deaf people as possible and bring them to church services . |
| 17 | Instead he waited until stragglers ventured outside the walls and then picked them off one by one , capturing the Dwarfs alive if possible and tormenting them for days within earshot of the citadel walls . |
| 18 | Hold them as high as possible and pull them towards each other 30 times . |
| 19 | The aim has been to produce pictorial representations of a complete set of valence molecular orbitals for as many molecules as possible and to relate them to what is observed in the experimental world . |
| 20 | Mount tubes as close to the front of cabinets as possible and shield them with a baffle or small valance or cornice attached to the bottom of units . |
| 21 | You should remove the cichlids as soon as possible and transfer them to a separate tank which is set-up specifically for African cichlids , or take them back to the place you bought them . |
| 22 | The Bradford Ukrainian Society was particularly supportive and provided them with dictionaries , contacts and artwork . |
| 23 | She had a huge square jaw and a look of iron self-satisfaction that kept the boredom and loathing intact and extended them to as many other people as possible . |
| 24 | But it made sense to keep the running titles intact and transfer them as a set to another forme on its way to the press , saving a little of the compositor 's time . |
| 25 | If you need to keep them longer , rinse and pat dry and store them in a sealable container in the fridge . |
| 26 | They will need staking and tying to prevent damage from wind and when finished , lift , dry and store them in a frost-free shed for replanting the following year . |
| 27 | ‘ So , ’ Nathan pulled the towel from his shoulder and tossed it aside , ‘ after you 've tidied the galley , wipe the oilskins dry and hang them in the locker . |
| 28 | Regular use of a good cream helps keep hands soft and smooth and protects them from the onslaught of cold weather . |
| 29 | There , they are likely to listen sympathetically and you may be lucky and catch them on a quiet day . |
| 30 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |