Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young couple were with her less than forty-eight hours , explaining they had promised to spend another thirty-six on the way back with John 's parents , who lived in Cheltenham . |
| 2 | He says they 've tried to sell more but ca n't drag people into the pub . |
| 3 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 4 | Most important , because this is the biggest part of the budget-rescue operation , Greeks are being told they have got to pay more tax . |
| 5 | They really must realise that time and time again being equivocal on defence when you 're on the left of centre means that voters somehow do n't vote for you , and I think they 've had to learn this lesson yet again and I only hope that by the er December elections in West Germany the Social Democratic Party who I 've got a great deal of er sympathy for on most social issues will be firm and clear about a united Germany not being neutral and within NATO . |
| 6 | The one where the fence comes they 've asked to fence this end , it 's that , those thin bits over |