Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We kept very still inside and in the end we could hear them slowly going down the stairs and going away .
3 The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before .
4 However , the contract will doubtless contain other terms , some of them expressly agreed between the parties ( e.g. the date of delivery ) and some of them implied ( often by other sections of the Sale of Goods Act — e.g. as to the place of delivery , section 29(2) ) .
5 And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’
6 When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake .
7 • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays .
8 Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress .
9 DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ that is expected to be made public soon .
10 DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ expected to be made public soon .
11 You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children
12 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 .
13 It now has 680 pages , many of them richly illuminated with a flamboyant exuberance unique in Irish and Insular manuscript art .
14 Most of them just go with the flow , ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman .
15 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 .
16 The contemporary style of worship songs generally makes them easily sung by a congregation and they lend themselves to a variety of arrangements for voices and instruments .
17 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 .
18 As a consequence of this research historians know very well the variety of factors which led to the dispute — many of them already outlined in the earlier sections of this chapter .
19 Dickens 's social origins were lowlier than those of anyone in the Movement , by a mile : not one of them ever worked in a factory as a child , as he did , or even as an adult .
20 The Act of Settlement of 1701 , which determined the succession to the throne , affirmed that the laws of England " are the Birthright of the People thereof and all the Kings and Queens who shall ascend the Throne of this Realm ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said Laws and all their Officers and Ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same . "
21 Players hide the studs from referees by showing him their reserve pair — complete with regulation studs — and them quickly switch before the game .
22 The aim of this policy was to define parental rights and incidentally , mobilise parents by giving them more influence within the schools their children attended .
23 ‘ I still think the great moments in acting are when a theatre audience lets out a big laugh at just the point when you want them to laugh — or when you can hear a pin drop because you 've got them totally captivated in the drama . ’
24 The following fifty years , which were also the years in which Athens and the Greeks decisively rebuffed the attempts of the Persians under Darius and Xerxes to destroy their independent states , saw further moves towards the dominance of popular power in Athens , some of them directly prompted by the necessities of war .
25 Both Parties had some 6,000 members in 1934 , but the Communists were on the increase , while the ILP was declining , in financial difficulties and riddled with unofficial groups , two of them directly encouraged by the Communist Party .
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 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 .
28 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 .
29 Each girl was them carefully suited to the target , tailored to his likes and dislikes .
30 Slowly lower the arms , still keeping them slightly bent at the elbows until the dumb-bells are level with the chest .
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