Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the children grew up they had a restricted freedom because the ‘ little people ’ did not permit them to go beyond certain points on a piece of land so the giants rebelled against this , thus starting a war . |
| 2 | One of ACE 's claims is that members will be able to develop systems based upon the same building blocks which are sufficiently differentiated to enable them to go after separate market niches . |
| 3 | ‘ Tickets for the concert evening at the King 's Hall will be going on sale soon and we can expect them to go like hot cakes . |
| 4 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 5 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 6 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 7 | Apart from cleaning each pane , they take photographs of the windows which help them paint in missing images , in keeping with the overall style . |
| 8 | Since the work is covered by Building Regulations , you will need to inform your local authority ; they may well tell you the type of trench necessary , the ways the drains have to be laid in them depending on local soil conditions and the material to be used for the drains . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , Château Margaux ‘ 48 , ’ one of them exclaimed with great excitement . |
| 10 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 11 | As we have seen , horses have basic physiological and psychological needs which must be met for them to remain in good health both physically and emotionally . |
| 12 | I have no record of having received a reply and since everything is beginning to move again with the local authorities applying to the Secretary of State for him to lay Orders under the Transport and Public Works Act to enable them to proceed with public consultation on their scheme , the matter is becoming critical once again . |
| 13 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 14 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 15 | Tip the fruits into a sieve ( save the juices that drain from them to whip with thick cream to serve with the Bakewell ) and mix them with the flaked almonds . |
| 16 | Drivers on the French express railway , the RER , which is expected to bring visitors to the site from central Paris are also threatening to strike on Sunday , when the park opens , because of the demands on them to cope with extra passenger traffic . |
| 17 | The oldest tavern is the Vlissinghe , of which mention was first made in 1552 , but there are hundreds of little bars and cafes , many of them housed in olde-worlde buildings that have the Americans squealing with delight . |
| 18 | It would also require them to agree to revenue-sharing arrangements , since clubs from large cities otherwise would gain a big advantage over those from smaller ones , which would veto the deal . |
| 19 | The development of interest rate and currency swaps has offered a further fillip to the eurobond market , by increasing borrowers ' flexibility in issuance , as well as enabling them to profit from comparative advantage in borrowing in different markets ( see Hammond , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 21 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 22 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 23 | They stood together watching her , both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings . |
| 24 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 25 | I found we used to have them mixed with sweet almond oil and soya oil , which I find this one brings out their aroma much more the grapeseed oil . |
| 26 | Earth Mysteries researcher John Merron has subsequently located the other points of the decagon and found them occupied by significant sites . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm building my working life around my family , ’ I could imagine them explaining to puzzled spouses . |
| 28 | The men said their employer was thinking twice about sending them to work in nationalist areas . |
| 29 | One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams . |
| 30 | Yorkshire , in common with East Anglia , has an ever-growing number of memorials , many of them dedicated to Canadian squadrons of Bomber Command . |