Example sentences of "[prep] they [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that there should be four or five other tournaments around the country to play in order for them just to get to the national championships . |
| 2 | In 1872 , the Glasgow Mission for the Deaf was properly reorganised , and Strathern was secretary for them then acted as treasurer for many years until he resigned due to differences with the then committee . |
| 3 | If the same duty was owed to those from within as to those from without the area , the adoption of criteria for selection which distinguished between them plainly conflicted with the express statutory duty laid down by section 6(5) . |
| 4 | There was little demand from local trade unions and the Divisional Committee appears to have been only modestly active , probably because where well-established trade union organisations had members interested in educational opportunities , links between them already existed through the WEA branch organisation and were especially effective in Northamptonshire , Bedford , Luton and Ipswich . |
| 5 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 6 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 7 | TESTING for a short list of illicit drugs has been labelled as myopic , since the working population as a whole tends to abuse a vast pharmacopoeia of legal but impairing substances , many of them heavily promoted by distilleries and pharmaceutical firms . |
| 8 | More of them probably remain to be identified , particularly where there were important royal centres in Saxon times . |
| 9 | It now has 680 pages , many of them richly illuminated with a flamboyant exuberance unique in Irish and Insular manuscript art . |
| 10 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 11 | You can choose from shoals of them lazily circling in tanks near your table ; some restaurants even let you catch your own meal from a pond out the back of the premises ( ’ NO FISHING LICENSE REQUIRED ! ! ! ! ’ ) . |
| 12 | However , it is worth noting two significant variants of this account , both of them closely associated with communist party intellectuals of various shades : state monopoly capitalist theory , and the various movements and arguments described as Eurocommunist . |
| 13 | France has 40 resorts and Spain 31 , most of them little known over here but none the worse for that , provided you can speak the appropriate language . |
| 14 | One of them even slept in the same room as her , but heard nothing . |
| 15 | In her interesting and vivid description of the first wave Marjorie Cosens quoted numerous testimonies by teachers to this effect , and some of them even wrote to the Board of Education . |
| 16 | Some of them even came from within the nuclear fold , concerned that the truth should be told from the inside out . |
| 17 | They seemed unaffected however , and threw their heads back , howling with unnatural laughter as they twisted their bodies in ever more contorted movements , some of them even brushing into one or other of the fires and continuing their dance as if they had n't noticed . |
| 18 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 19 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 20 | As a result , some of them even behaved like schoolchildren ; it was not uncommon , apparently , for students at A to throw paper aeroplanes in lectures — a rather immature ( but possibly understandable ) response to the frustration of endless listening and note-taking . |
| 21 | Thus all eleven of the zonal ammonites of the Lower Lias ( basal Jurassic ) belong to different genera and only two of them even belong to the same subfamily . |
| 22 | I would rather see a few children unnecessarily separated from their parents than thousands of them just remain without any parents at all ! [ … ] . |
| 23 | Most of them just go with the flow , ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman . |
| 24 | Some of them helped , but most of them just stood in their doorways and watched . |
| 25 | The flowers were mainly chosen to accentuate the overall silvery effect , but some of them also came from the ‘ bride 's ’ garden , as I felt this would give the picture additional meaning for her . |
| 26 | Is not it significant that the 10 authorities with the worst staying-on rates are all Labour controlled and that many of them also figure among the 20 authorities whose students have the worst GCSE results ? |
| 27 | A lot of them also stand on the part that covered by Street And I know Street has got a tenant 's action group against prostitutes . |
| 28 | In 1982 electricity utilities cancelled 18 nuclear power stations , some of them well advanced in construction . |
| 29 | The evacuees filled most of the small hotels and the Savoy , many of them financially supported by the British Government . |
| 30 | Seriously enough that is , to attempt a genetic transplant of a high concentration of Dutchness in the form of a complete theme-city , with canals , windmills , gabled houses and monuments such as the 112 metre high late Gothic Dom-tower of Utrecht , all of them exactly reproduced with an astonishing attention to detail and accuracy . |