Example sentences of "they [vb base] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Two thirds of them scratch a living from the soil .
2 Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello .
3 Some of them some of them give a lot of details , I mean this gives a lot of detail there .
4 Many of them rue the passing of the seven foot broad gauge railway .
5 Whilst you might use these behaviours and through them create an impression of being genuine , it will , of course , quickly be destroyed unless you do what you say you will do .
6 They do them though , with a wonderful spirit and grace and two of them present a kind of duet which evokes a spontaneous roar of applause .
7 Two of them revisit the site of the Mount Carmel centre , their former home outside Waco , that Koresh renamed Ranch Apocalypse .
8 had them brace the back of a human chain
9 You might need to insert interest rates as decimals ( 1 per cent = 0.01 ) and them reformat the block as a percentage .
10 Some of them aid the deception by raising their tails and wagging them at the approaching attacker , while keeping the rest of the body still .
11 Occasionally , knowing that all but two fieldsmen must patrol the area within the 30-yard circle centred around the stumps at each end , they chip the ball over their heads into the ‘ no-mans 's land ’ beyond them .
12 If they fear a fall in prices , selling a future or acquiring a put option are alternatives to selling the underlying securities .
13 They fear a backlash from the war .
14 They fear the deterioration of the value of the pound against the dollar may mean Mr Outhwaite is poised to demand another £60 million in cash from them — cash calls totalling £168 million have already been paid .
15 Instinctively they fear the strength of the emotional ties with their mother , which could prevent them from becoming mature and independent men .
16 They fear the power of the example he set by completing a world record 87 marathons , in 13 different nations in the year to March 15 .
17 With frontier restrictions coming down all over Europe in 1992 , they fear the sort of epidemic that has been sweeping the rest of the continent .
18 Carers say they fear the impact of VAT on fuel as many are already struggling to survive .
19 They fear that responsibilities and attitudes once a prominent part of a teacher 's life may no longer be regarded as essential ; they fear an erosion of the teacher 's role and status , and see changes as signalling moves to squeeze him out of concerns that were and are rightly his .
20 They fear an end to the open outcry system and a lack of arbitrage opportunities on the new system .
21 They dispute the stereotype of the ageing lecher , popularised in Malcolm Bradbury 's The History Man .
22 And they kill from spite : they despise the colour of another 's skin and resent the way another worships God .
23 They lay the child with his head down and slap his chest to help drain the lungs .
24 Krashen 's ( 1981 ) views are particularly relevant to the study of BSL , not only because they lay the base for a fundamental re-examination of teaching methods ( see appendix 2 ) but because they allow us to understand more clearly the language learning problems of BSL acquirers .
25 ‘ The Miletti family have made a statement in which they lay the blame for the murder squarely on the shoulders of the police , ’ the woman began .
26 They also like things which are quite so if the activity involving chairing a meeting , doing a role play , doing a presentation although they may be nervous they actually enjoy that , they find they gain a lot from that and they also like activities where to an extent there 's a freedom from constraints , policy structures , they do n't like to feel bound because if you think about it a lot of are actually exploring deep end situations trying new things out , they do n't like to feel that constrained .
27 The tools are designed to provide developers with a superset of features from the varied operating systems , so that they gain the value of unique operating system characteristics , yet still deliver portable applications — for example , a common programming interface set enables a programmer to write a single application that supports the Macintosh , OSF/Motif , Presentation Manager , Windows , or future graphical user interfaces .
28 The tools are designed to provide developers with a superset of features from the varied operating systems , so that they gain the value of unique operating system characteristics , yet still deliver portable applications — for example , a common programming interface set enables a programmer to write a single application that supports the Macintosh , OSF/Motif , Presentation Manager , Windows , or future graphical user interfaces .
29 They punctuate the log of his days and weeks throughout his months at The Hague .
30 With the catapults they use to keep birds from the crops , they launch a couple of parting stones far over my head .
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