Example sentences of "they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | My ancestors were wealthy and powerful ; they owned a vast amount of property and a fleet of merchant ships . |
| 32 | Yeah , it was erm you did n't have to go that far out but they ha they owned a bit of land and stuff |
| 33 | In this way they are seen by others as having authority and they gain a new measure of confidence in dealing with matters on your behalf . |
| 34 | Compacts should strongly recommend that trade unionists should be released on full pay to work with teachers and students so that they gain a balanced understanding of how industry works . |
| 35 | Through CFD simulations , they gain a more detailed understanding of the heat and mass flows within a process and this helps them to : |
| 36 | They also like things which are quite so if the activity involving chairing a meeting , doing a role play , doing a presentation although they may be nervous they actually enjoy that , they find they gain a lot from that and they also like activities where to an extent there 's a freedom from constraints , policy structures , they do n't like to feel bound because if you think about it a lot of are actually exploring deep end situations trying new things out , they do n't like to feel that constrained . |
| 37 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
| 38 | When they met a few days later in Benghazi they quarrelled and the Zliten boy knifed the Zuwayi in the arm . |
| 39 | En route they met a number of people they knew , hearing their stories and telling their own . |
| 40 | But when convoys of vehicles arrived at the sites to start their planned test drilling in August 1986 they met a blockade of people sitting in the road . |
| 41 | On arrival at the laboratory , they met a second volunteer and the research scientist . |
| 42 | Next they met a small brook which Artemis and Buttons had also jumped previously , and which they flew again , and finally , before reaching the King 's Bushes , they met a low but wide hedge . |
| 43 | Next they met a small brook which Artemis and Buttons had also jumped previously , and which they flew again , and finally , before reaching the King 's Bushes , they met a low but wide hedge . |
| 44 | When coalition ministers began to bring forward legislation in 1919 they met a hail of criticism , from Liberals hostile to decontrol and Unionists lukewarm on social reconstruction . |
| 45 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 46 | And as they met a passion exploded between them ; a hunger that terrified Folly with its intensity . |
| 47 | Proposals , submitted through the Co-ordinator , would have to be assessed by the Group to ensure that they met a number of criteria . |
| 48 | Half way along they met a woman . |
| 49 | As they came round a bend they met a lorry overtaking a tractor . |
| 50 | With the catapults they use to keep birds from the crops , they launch a couple of parting stones far over my head . |
| 51 | ‘ Travel firms are right on target when they launch a huge range of discounts , ’ said an Abta spokesman . |
| 52 | Many of the UK 's rarest birds of prey are under continuing threat of persecution , claim the RSPB as they launch a campaign to raise £400,000 to help eradicate the problem . |
| 53 | They 've announced a new sports car to be built at Cowley and they launch a new model in April . |
| 54 | The reaction of local farmers to this disruption of their normal farming activity was to wait the situation out , as they expected a high price for their lands . |
| 55 | Last night the grieving couple were still baffled by the tragedy that struck down six-year-old Elizabeth a week after doctors said they expected a full recovery from a brain tumour . |
| 56 | They expected a few dozen requests , but boxes were eventually sited at 100 farms and two years on experts are thrilled with the results . |
| 57 | they expected , they expected a lot of er applications . |
| 58 | And they expected a lot of but they did n't expect that many . |
| 59 | They taste a lot better when you are hungry . |
| 60 | But in Mexico , peasants pulverise the plump triticale kernels in stone mortars to prepare tortillas ; they taste a little different from those made from traditional maize , but are relished nevertheless . |