Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During experiment they were placed in modified Bollman type cages to maintain the minimum restraint necessary . |
| 2 | After lunch they were given a detailed demonstration of how the Direct Banking system works and were so impressed that both accepted an invitation to join the service . |
| 3 | In the morning Ballesteros and Olazabal could have been cast as villains but after lunch they were to produce some irrepressible form . |
| 4 | After discharge they were reviewed at weekly intervals and the volume of feed consumed was recorded daily throughout the four week period . |
| 5 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 6 | Although prison rules do not allow inmates to be paid for broadcasts they are allowed to make personal telephone calls . |
| 7 | When parents applied for assistance they were asked to provide general information about the family , including occupations , earnings , rent , and size of accommodation . |
| 8 | Out of the original ocean of Chaos they were born , symbolising the interactive forces of Yin and Yang . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work . |
| 10 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 11 | So of course they 're based on national figures . |
| 12 | starting in the bedroom now , so decorators said they , and of course they 're doing the downstairs cloakroom so there 's two upstairs , one downstairs and they 're making so much mess everywhere . |
| 13 | Of course they 're going to find in Scripture the sexist views which conform to their own narrow-minded view of the world . |
| 14 | erm strike out , interim payment , order fourteen er itself , there 's always still available to them , erm that the other side of the coin is if they get their money and of course they 're going to be threatening bankruptcy for some four thousand odd Names , I mean that 's , that 's equally devastating to individuals , erm my Lord , one would be into a type of argument on balance of convenience if we were at this stage , one would be considering the bankruptcy of the names , whether they have the funds to pay , even if judgment is given against them because vast majority do n't and what would be the point of giving judgment , this order fourteen cases saying one should n't do it in those circumstances , what if the names are right , will they get the money back , will they get a cross undertaking damages and pre er , er and to what extent do now have the funds , to what extent will it actually effect their business in the light of of |
| 15 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 16 | And now of course they 're paying the price too because |
| 17 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 18 | Now of course they were drenched with this water sump water coming from this blow hole . |
| 19 | Of course they were involved . |
| 20 | She wished he would n't : once the door was opened , of course they were going to come in . |
| 21 | And so every night when they got home there was all kinds of people , I mean you know say miners and anybody as well , they all surrounded this house and when the police brought him in , of course they were booing and all this business you see . |
| 22 | But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down . |
| 23 | I was at a dinner other night , er where er French Railways were the hosts , and of course they were doing their best to er tell everybody to travel through the Tunnel naturally enough , because that 's what their trains will be doing come May , and er one or two people , it must be said , were just a touch sceptical . |
| 24 | These terminal nodes can thus be configured to perform the specific set of activities they are required to carry out , allowing the arrangement of geometry-generating workstations to handle and manipulate increasingly large graphical models . |
| 25 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 26 | The following are grouped in rank order ( a ) to ( d ) according to the number of times they were mentioned |
| 27 | Little thought had been given to the question of what sort of institutions they were going to be : |
| 28 | Well , all I can say was , I been , seen the building , and there were a lot of the work was being done under supervision of David under a community project , and for the amount of money they 're talking about , three hundred pound , they 're not going to put a mezzanine , I mean what they were doing , is gon na put something across the trusses so they can store something there , are n't they ? |
| 29 | is aware and the sums of money they are believed to have paid for their Euramco shares . |
| 30 | In this time of recession they 're becoming few and far between , and the centre 's future is in jeopardy . |