Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] they [prep] [art] " 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 | a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 5 | Two men threw bottles and other material at police cars which chased them after a raid at a chemist shop in Tarporley . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 11 | I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the . |
| 12 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If noises are separated by very short intervals we hear them as a continuous sound . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But it is undoubtedly dangerous and often cruel , stirring not so much the boxers but the crowds who watch them to a pitch of savagery quite incompatible with the notion that boxing is ‘ the noble art of self-defence ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Thousands of years ago , horses were grazing dinners for the carnivores which stalked them through the grasslands , and the horses which survived were the fittest , fastest , strongest , and most alert . |
| 21 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 22 | That 's that 's the way we do fractions that 's the way you do adding up fractions or taking away fractions you change them to the same . |
| 23 | Texts were inevitably part of their culture , as were the individuals who wrote them under the shaping constraints of state , family , religion . |
| 24 | Where we have specific reservations we mention them in the text . |
| 25 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
| 26 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 27 | We 've got our single layer network as we know so we take all our inputs we push them through the decoders and we 've got our single layer after that . |
| 28 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 29 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 30 | The Commonwealth became to politicians and men of affairs what Indirect Rule was to the DO — a chance to display those qualities which justified them in the possession of an empire , and thereby ensure its perpetuation . |