Example sentences of "they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 2 | The feminists had marched in thousands when David Laing MP , in his maiden speech , urged married women to give up their jobs because ‘ there is so much to do at home ’ ; they sabotaged a cricket pitch ( cricket being ‘ male idleness elevated into a religion ’ ) etching into the grass with acid their crudest symbol : a round-cornered diamond to represent a vulva , with a large clitoris and no opening . |
| 3 | They inserted a truncheon into his anus . |
| 4 | The weavers valued them more highly , however , and responded with a fourteen-week strike during which they inserted a notice in the Ipswich Journal . |
| 5 | Central government was felt to be too remote from the people ; they lacked a sufficient sense of participation in its affairs and were beset by a sense of unresolved grievance . |
| 6 | First it was claimed that LEAs had inadequate information about curriculum provision in schools ; and , second , that they lacked a clear policy on the curriculum . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , they also found that the professional newcomers to the area were often upset by the environmental consequences of modern farming ( see Chapters 8 and 9 ) and since they lacked a rural power base they formed environmental pressure groups to protest against the farmers , thus creating a new form of social division in the rural community . |
| 8 | Are many of our women politicians the little girls who refused to recognise the unwelcome fact that they lacked a penis and , defiantly rebellious , exaggerated their masculinity … ? |
| 9 | They lacked a dimension , |
| 10 | They lacked a subtle wavering aura of sound and responses to sound . |
| 11 | Great passing ; good running , but they lacked a knockout punch . |
| 12 | Lenders fell into two camps , depending on how much they fear a further drying up of already moribund mortgage demand . |
| 13 | They fear a backlash from the war . |
| 14 | I have here a petition with about 22,000 signatures , principally of visitors and the staff of the royal parks who are concerned about the proposed privatisation of those parks because they fear a consequent fall from the high standards established in them . |
| 15 | If they fear a fall in prices , selling a future or acquiring a put option are alternatives to selling the underlying securities . |
| 16 | Rank had funded his forays into production on the back of profits accruing from the exhibition of US pictures but , instead of standing firm with the American companies when they announced a boycott of British screens , he decided to boost his own company 's production . |
| 17 | They announced a 10% concessionary tax rate to approved art and antique dealers on income derived from transactions on behalf of non-residents with approved auction houses . |
| 18 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 19 | So today they announced a £10,000 reward offered in tandem with the Community Action Trust . |
| 20 | TERRY Venables and Alan Sugar were all smiles when , in June 1991 , they announced a joint rescue package for financially-crippled Tottenham Hotspur . |
| 21 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 22 | They revealed a poor judgement which damaged the Government and destroyed his career . |
| 23 | He watched intently as the tiny shutters of tree-bark opened wider and wider , and when they were fully open they revealed a small squarish window set neatly in the curve of the big branch . |
| 24 | Home Office minister John Patten said they revealed a ‘ welcome slowdown . ’ |
| 25 | And they revealed a taxi driver may hold vital evidence about events that night . |
| 26 | Together they owned a fish shop called Levy 's Provisions and Fisheries . |
| 27 | They owned a circus tent with its own seating and turned their hands to most of the acts , but have not been able to pay debts estimated at £60,000 or more . |
| 28 | The Tallentires were staunch Chapel folk even though they owned a pub . |
| 29 | The brothers told me that they owned a remote and beautiful beach which had recently been colonised by hippies living in crevices among the rocks . |
| 30 | They owned a freehold tenement that stood close to the north door of the church and another small tenement in Houlston township , which they normally let to tenants . |