Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Various items get gulped up into my mouth , and after skilful massage with tongue and teeth I transfer them to the plate for additional sculpture with knife and fork and spoon .
2 Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly
3 a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and ,
4 Duosome Cream is a beauty product whose active ingredients include Elastin , Collagen , Vitamins E and F , together with liposomes which carry them beneath the skin to the cells below .
5 The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out .
6 Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow .
7 For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance .
8 She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace .
9 And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable .
10 Bicester 's opponents are Bradford Salem , the side who beat them in the final last year .
11 A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way .
12 This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place .
13 In fact the victims were mainly the families of senior military officers and the Ba'ath party officials , and the walkie-talkies were being used by the drivers who took them to the shelter .
14 Although it meant a detour he drove them through the Bois du Boulogne .
15 In his key he differentiates them on the number of arm spines and suggested that A. grandis could be separated from A. otteri by its ridged proximal ventral arm plates and by a lower number of arm spines .
16 Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’
17 The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands .
18 At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets .
19 Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work .
20 Other satellites are in a near-polar orbit which takes them over the Arctic and Antarctic regions .
21 I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the .
22 It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since .
23 Two seasons ago , they beat Sparta Prague 2-0 in Czechoslovakia , then drew 0-0 in Napoli on a European Cup run which took them to the semi-finals .
24 The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’
25 A month later my parents were met on the open plain outside Addis Ababa by Lord Herbert Hervey and a deputation of Abyssinian notables who escorted them to the Legation , at some distance to the east of the town , in an extensive compound at the foot of the Entoto hills .
26 I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life .
27 ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace .
28 And a of course is also what they used to get when you wanted to make mealy puddings you made them with the the intestines of an animal and that 's also called a .
29 They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier .
30 Many of the pre-independence laws enabling action to be taken against privately owned media have been enforced by the new African governments , despite the fact that most new leaders issued statements which committed them to the ideals of free mass media and free expression of opinion .
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