Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 3 | This is much easier than keeping them in piles in a cupboard or closet . |
| 4 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 5 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 6 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 7 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 8 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 9 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 10 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 11 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 12 | His body shuddered , and then his tolerance disintegrated and he wrenched his arms free and wrapped them round her , holding her hard against him . |
| 13 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 14 | Miracles can and do happen , if we are willing to stop struggling and allow them into our lives . |
| 15 | He collected some and showed them to a friend who worked in the Geology Department of the Royal Museum , Chambers Street in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | But one can not help thinking that a far greater contribution to the preservation of the World 's rain forests would be made if companies could be persuaded to make their annual brochures less glossy and to print them on re-cycled paper . |
| 17 | Immediately prior to use rinse the coverslips two or three times in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 and place them in individual wells of a multi-well plastic tissue culture dish ( Nunc ) containing 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 . |
| 18 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 19 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 20 | She would put all the light clothes into one bag and all the dark into another and take them to the launderette in Pevsner Road . |
| 21 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
| 22 | In the end George ate all of his , but Libby faithfully saved a few and wrapped them in a paper bag . |
| 23 | erm so you know but you may find if you give , print off a few and give them to a few people over the weekend |
| 24 | The tasks themselves — typing , photocopying , collating , stapling — are not intrinsically interesting but doing them with others , who are eager for the same goal , is . |
| 25 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 26 | I used to roll them in my hand and get them warm and get them in my finger like that and shoot it down , and watch it go down er |
| 27 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 28 | What is , however , a matter of concern is that within days of receiving and failing to reply to that letter , on 23 October 1991 , the local authority moved the children from the family friends with whom they had lived since 17 July 1991 and placed them with foster parents . |
| 29 | Jermey 's aim is not to turn out chefs who can produce Chinese wedding feasts , but adventurous chefs who can borrow techniques where appropriate and incorporate them into their own style : ‘ They 'll see new ways of finishing dishes , new combinations of flavours . ’ |
| 30 | The potential for disaster lurks very close behind the bright shiny facade waiting to pounce on the unwary and relieve them of substantial sums of money . |