Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said .
2 That assessment was echoed by the other speakers in the session — Kevin Allard of Bertram Books , David Edyvean of the Gosport Bookshop and Nick Polkinhorne of the Sevenoaks Bookshop — each of whom explained how the application of new technology had enabled them successfully to transform the environment in which they worked .
3 Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night .
4 ( Always put a knowledgeable and reliable person at the tail , and remind them only to hold the tail down if that is necessary to move the glider easily . )
5 The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero .
6 The clips are short — no more than a couple of seconds each — but you can run them together using the editing program .
7 Convention be interpreted as meaning that there must be a connection between the actions against the various defendants ? ( b ) If question ( a ) must be answered in the affirmative , does the necessary connection between the actions against the various defendants exist if the actions are essentially the same in fact and law ( einfache Streitgenossenschaft ) , or must a connection be assumed to exist only if it is expedient to hear and determine them together to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings ( for example , in cases of ‘ notwengide Streitgenossenschaft ’ ( compulsory joinder ) ) ?
8 Pour some oil into a small dish ( do not pour oil onto your partner 's body , it can be quite a shock ) , oil your hands , then rub them together to warm the oil .
9 Russian representatives sent to them normally had the rank of Great Ambassador ( Velikii Posol ) and their complaints over ceremonial were less intrusive than in other capitals .
10 [ I ] t seems to me that we are moving more and more in the direction of an elective dictatorship , not the less objectionable in principle because it is inefficient in practice , and not the less tyrannical in its nature because the opposed parties , becoming more and more polarized in their attitudes , seek with some prospects of success to seize the new levers of power and use them alternately to reverse the direction taken by their immediate predecessors .
11 Yeah picture them in your mind and then just draw them just write the letter D dog door
12 One of them just missed the teacher 's head .
13 The windows are now boarded up , but the rocks which came through them still litter the floor .
14 It was a time of speculative fever burning over western Europe , and debt holders not only rushed to exchange , many of them quickly put the stock back on to a soaring market where others rushed to take it up .
15 Sunday evenings see them busily transforming the Stall into ‘ their ’ Thrift Shop .
16 Advantage of this can be taken by widely-held public companies to enable them temporarily to freeze the list of those who are entitled to receive an annual dividend or to vote at an annual general meeting .
17 Answering them also requires the development of experimental models in which to test different hypotheses , and measuring techniques refined enough to be able to detect any postulated changes with learning .
18 Those reactions which require energy to drive them also require the presence of ATP .
19 As we shall see later in the chapter , however , there is a potential conflict between using interest rates to control the demand for money and using them also to control the exchange rate .
20 If there is a wide range of office books in use by religious in the Church of England , almost all of them now use the ASB rite for the Eucharist .
21 More importantly , none of them spontaneously reflected the irony or the exaggerations of the passage in their recall .
22 Two brave men changed direction to rush to his aid , but neither of them even reached the wire .
23 Increasing dissatisfaction among both teachers and students led them frequently to ask the question , ‘ Why study at all ? ’ , with some justification .
24 They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network .
25 They instinctively understand the call and know , too , how and where to take cover : some below ground , some by crouching low and mimicking the earth or leaves , others flee to mother 's wing or pouch , baby crocodiles take cover in the gentle jaws of mother 's mouth .
26 ‘ I hope they properly consult the public , local authorities and political parties .
27 Together they successfully masterminded the acquisition and distribution of British and American hard currency , with which they bought Croatian fodder to feed the Swiss cows donated to Austria which then provided free milk .
28 In August 1980 they successfully tested the conversion on a private railway in Somerset .
29 Creeping around from hangar to hangar and dodging patrolling sentries they successfully ensured the destruction of several more aircraft , brand-new crated engines and machinery .
30 While the biographical sources normally mention the professors from whom the student received lessons , they rarely mention the medrese at which the professor was teaching , so that it is extremely difficult to follow a student from medrese to medrese .
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