Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] they [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 2 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 4 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 5 | Doug reaches intermittently into his crisp packet and feeds them into his mouth where they blend into a rubbery combination of mixed mash . |
| 6 | They wandered down a small incline where they stopped on a bridge and stared down into the browny green water . |
| 7 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 8 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 9 | Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past . |
| 10 | if they would only produce the same styles that they produce for the up to size twelve . |
| 11 | DID you also puzzle why for that most important debate in the House of Commons last Thursday the women in the Shadow Cabinet chose to dress in a uniform of baby pink so they appeared on the front benches looking like a bunch of misplaced Barbie Dolls |
| 12 | He becomes an entertainer , a manipulator whose victories we watch as if hypnotized , seeing both the tricks and the mesmeric effect that they have on the innocent . |
| 13 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 14 | It may be shown ( using the criterion that they lead to the same set of equations ) that by adding the so-called leakage inductances to the ideal transformer the two representations ( Fig. 4.11 ) become equivalent . |
| 15 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 16 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 17 | We suggest that there is considerable evidence in the data that they present for a downward pressure on referral rates , most noticeably in women ( perhaps particularly in elderly women ) and to the specialty of general medicine . |
| 18 | It is helpful for them to recognize that if they intend to carry through what they say , they may need to reduce the number of demands that they make on the child . |
| 19 | The Treasury had accepted the idea that international facilities are a cost-effective way to support large-scale research , but is has been reluctant to provide financial incentives to attract such facilities to Britain , following the example of France and Switzerland , because of doubts that they contribute to the country 's economic wealth . |
| 20 | This survey revealed that 4 per cent of adults reported that they looked after a dependant living in the same house ( i.e. they were co-resident carer ) with a further 10 per cent reporting that they looked after a dependant in another household ( i.e. they were an extra-resident carer ) . |
| 21 | This is permitted only on condition that they help in the conquest of Canaan before returning to a settled life . |
| 22 | The Library issues floras on loan to staff on condition that they remain in the building , and accessible to other Library users during normal working hours . |
| 23 | Their holders would adopt the same position of relative irrelevance that they hold in the republican democracies of Europe . |
| 24 | Despite the eager shouting of his Goblin mates , the Fanatic really has little idea of where he is going , and will happily plough through troops from his own side if they get in the way . |
| 25 | Gradually the haze and sweat cleared from their eyes and they focussed over the open valley they had cycled up from . |
| 26 | Those who were already more vulnerable , however , due to lack of such a relationship , were half as likely to develop depression following a provoking agent if they worked outside the home . |
| 27 | They sailed round the shoreline of the harbour until they came to a small bay with a large waterfall over which cascaded the purest water . |
| 28 | The referee 's first task of a damp evening was to ask Wasps to change their jerseys in order to avoid confusion and they emerged with a far more waspish look about them in black-and-yellow hoops . |
| 29 | The height , the sky and the distance went to their heads and they skipped in the sunset . |
| 30 | They had cups of sweet milky tea and they sat at a table . |