Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 3 | Having made a sequence of images , ask them to put them into a different running order . |
| 4 | What gives you this impression ? 6 The teacher set them to do something in a short time . |
| 5 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 6 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 7 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 8 | If he is in a bargaining mood , he might like to ask them to furnish him with a new typewriter . |
| 9 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 10 | Below , they revealed nothing but a thin haze . |
| 11 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 12 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 13 | How can they compare themselves to a former professional player who has played in front of ten or twenty thousand people ? ’ |
| 14 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 15 | Now that is a large part of our culture , which in a sense gets sucked into the educational establishment and sucked into teaching relationships , and because it 's such a consistent part of the way in which women are seen , I think they perceive it as a greater problem . |
| 16 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 17 | When we have a little technical problem they transform it into a big one . ’ |
| 18 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 19 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 20 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 21 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 22 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
| 23 | Once at the top of the rise , they found themselves on a flat plateau , of which most of the park area consisted |
| 24 | In Algeria , they found themselves in a similar situation , fighting a war against the regular Algerian Army and the guerrillas of the Front Libération Nationale . |
| 25 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 26 | They found themselves in a long dark gallery above a massive room . |
| 27 | They found themselves in a cavernous room lined with scarred wooden workbenches and rows of metal hooks hanging from the ceiling . |
| 28 | As they drove towards their refuge , they found themselves in a large station yard , now overgrown with weeds and bramble bushes and obviously derelict . |
| 29 | Again short of water , they found themselves after a brief sandstorm in the middle of a group of Italian vehicles . |
| 30 | No , they send it in a bloody big one . |