Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 3 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
| 4 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 5 | Then they launch into this routine . |
| 6 | At the very end , when the curtain comes down , they dance to that tune ‘ My Foolish Heart ’ . ’ |
| 7 | I do not know how they communicate with each other , but their organisation is formidable . |
| 8 | It was her research that showed how close we are in evolutionary terms to the apes : how they communicate with each other , use tools ( hitherto thought to be a strictly human activity ) and develop lifelong bonds of family and friendship . |
| 9 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 10 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 11 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
| 12 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 13 | If it 's diagnosed as erm leaving treatment there 's a variety of splints that frames that you lie the baby on , strap them in and they remain in that position with their legs |
| 14 | In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level . |
| 15 | We might explain this by saying that whether the natives will assent or dissent to S will depend normally not only on their present situation but also on the other beliefs which they bring to that situation . |
| 16 | I mean , they do tell you , they sell on that way do n't they ? |
| 17 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 18 | For example , as Marcel drives along the winding road to Martinville , he describes the three spires of the church in terms of active movement , the spires exchange places , they come closer together , they draw further apart , they hide behind each other in turn . |
| 19 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 20 | Many of the topics they raise during this election campaign do not interest us at all . |
| 21 | Meltingly they eat at each other , like two carnivorous ice-creams . |
| 22 | Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year . |
| 23 | ‘ There is no doubt that they rub against each other . |
| 24 | As the amino acids are brought into position they connect with each other and build up a protein , which becomes detached from the messenger RNA and is used by the cell . |
| 25 | The Human Relations approach , as its name suggests , thus concentrates upon the people dimension within organisations and how they interrelate with each other . |
| 26 | Because migrant populations are frequently recruited as low-paid workers , they tend in many countries to cluster in the poor areas of inner cities near to their workplaces , and to be concentrated in low-status occupations . |
| 27 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 28 | In Xenopus oocytes that lack RYRs , there are numerous initiation foci ( hot spots ) and the waves migrate outwards as expanding spheres or spirals which annihilate as they crash into each other . |
| 29 | While societies do themselves construct devices for specialising and separating out levels of meaning , this does not mean that they ever achieve in reality the claims that they make about such discourse . |
| 30 | However the demands they make of each student are rigorous and varied . |