Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 2 | The statue of Moloch in Carthage had large outstretched hands for children to be placed on before they tumbled to a blazing fire below , where they would be ‘ purified ’ and blessed by that god . |
| 3 | They 'd broken in and they 'd better get out . |
| 4 | The huge padlock seemed oddly out of place for anyone could have broken in if they had wished . |
| 5 | In chapter 8 , rules were formulated which dictated which way to run the proportions when dealing with the hypothesized effect of one variable upon another : proportions were calculated so that they summed to 1 within the categories of the explanatory variable . |
| 6 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ We made the effort last year , but the talks would have broken down before they started , except for the Ulster Unionists . ’ |
| 8 | Either the telemetric system has broken down or they 've gone bonkers at Bacton . ’ |
| 9 | First , it was assumed that no long-range problems would occur ; that is , that the acidifying or toxic power of the gases would be neutralised long before they got to Scandinavia or anywhere else . |
| 10 | The second premise is a description of the experimental set-up , including the statement , ‘ This sample of bats is blindfolded so that they do not have the use of their eyes ’ . |
| 11 | As long ago as 1970 , the Coldstream-Summerson Report reflected the growing concern about vocational courses and suggested they be recognized so that they became design ‘ technician ’ courses along the lines of the definition laid down in the 1969 Haslegrave Report . |
| 12 | They drove back to Alnwick in complete silence , broken only as they reached their suite , by Roman . |
| 13 | The Seven Points to Remember were revised so that they mentioned the four types of diarrhoea ( previously described ) and stated that all four types should be treated with LGS . |
| 14 | Demolition charges had also been carefully set on machinery in the fish meal and other factories ; these small charges of gun cotton being placed so that they destroyed equipment without the risk of causing needless casualties . |
| 15 | Double and triple installations can be arranged so that they use a constant flow of water , which is introduced into the rinse sink , overflowing by weirs wash sinks , to discharge continuously via an overflow pipe fixed in the wash sink . |
| 16 | Cut a tongue in each of the faces to be joined so that they interlock neatly , bind the joint with raffia and cover with grafting wax or bituminous tree paint . |
| 17 | ‘ There was an old French lady carried on till they carried her out , ’ said Constance . |
| 18 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 19 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 20 | If it is unnecessarily bureaucratic the engineer should seek to have the systems modified so that they contribute more cost effectively to improved quality . |
| 21 | Meals also have to be modified so that they do not produce a rhythmic input to the body . |
| 22 | Slightly larger objects , however different and unrelated , should be grouped so that they have something in common like colour or national origin . |
| 23 | By 1870 the old city ramparts and defensive gateways had been torn down because they hindered the greatly increased flow of traffic . |
| 24 | No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone . |
| 25 | These two receptors will be considered together because they share considerable structural and functional homologies . |
| 26 | Jobs which do not fulfil this purpose must be reorganised so that they do . |
| 27 | Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be . |
| 28 | Nor did it mean that Germany and the countries associated with her would be let in until they had purged their crimes . |
| 29 | It was the only thing she 'd been wearing that had n't come away when they undressed . |
| 30 | Th th they 've come through and they 've taken control of the area . |