Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] they [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today over half the new cars registered in Britain each year are bought by employers , and 2m of Britain 's income-tax payers admit to the Inland Revenue that they have a company car . |
| 2 | Farm workers also gain intrinsic satisfaction from working with living and growing plants and animals and they share a sense of achievement when they are finally brought to maturity , the sequential nature of production allowing workers to be involved in all of the stages through to completion . |
| 3 | Thus individuals desire certain goals and they put a value on these goals . |
| 4 | ‘ We produce a programme and they produce a programme . |
| 5 | They get poem , my greatest fear and they get a project homework from Lynn . |
| 6 | puts an aerial on your roof and they knock a hole in your roof then presumably they 're liable for the damage |
| 7 | They take sea shells or pearls not pearls and they powder a bit and then put several layers on it so they are not |
| 8 | Marauding birds such as herring gulls will grab and swallow a chick if they get a chance . |
| 9 | However , a large number of small shareholders can frustrate the vote if they form a majority in number ( in person or by proxy ) at the actual meeting . |
| 10 | I know about these pirate recordings and they cause a lot of trouble — this is something we have to be very careful about with our CD videos — but I know that sometimes there are things that we can never recapture and it is understandable that people will want to have them . |
| 11 | The portion of the army 's points value which you are permitted to spend on characters includes the value of characters ' armour and weapons , any magic items they have , a steed if they are mounted , a monster if they ride a monster , and a chariot and its crew if they ride a chariot . |
| 12 | Characters are not affected by Animosity unless they join a Mob , in which case they are affected along with the unit itself . |
| 13 | Now I work for the Family Planning Association because they pay a salary as well as a bonus for each sterilisation . |
| 14 | It often turns into a ‘ hat party ’ with friends sitting around wearing all sorts of styles while they have a drink . ’ |
| 15 | APTS are currently concentrating their campaign on schools , trying to deter youngsters from petty crime before they have a chance to start . |
| 16 | But that also means that wild flowers and herbs get cut before they have a chance to flower and propagate . |
| 17 | It is essential that a thorough selection trawl of new books is made , because important titles must be put into stock before they have a chance to go out of print , and because the first year or two after publication is the time that books are usually in most demand . |
| 18 | Many bureaux make it policy to apologise to the waiting clients before they have a chance to complain . |
| 19 | In the picture are two men , almost interchangeable , working side by side as they dig a ditch . |
| 20 | Smokers screw up their eyes and lips when they puff a cigarette and this can surely lead to more wrinkles . |
| 21 | Most of these are n't signed , but if we look at them early and register our interest in the act , we hope the band will consider us to be their agent when they have a record deal . |
| 22 | I 'm putting a fiver on them in the hope that they do a West ham ( last 2nd Div club to win it ? ) . |
| 23 | They know time is money so they have a policy of buying it with yours and everyone else 's . |
| 24 | Many Third World countries owe more in debts than they earn a year from exports : |
| 25 | ‘ I control all the automata on the island of Britain , all those machines that bask in the dream that they have a soul . |
| 26 | He was also bored with Yolande and started bringing home girls , suggesting to Yolande that they try a threesome . |
| 27 | They will I a agree with that but the nice thing is that if they can get out there and get at 'em and get another goal that will build their confidence and their stamina and everything up and I thi really do think Alan that they have a chance . |
| 28 | In my experience , babies are remarkably placid through all sorts of family rows , so long as they are warm and well fed ; while they will infallibly disrupt the most harmonious scene if they have a pain . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No one believes they are in Florida until they see a palm tree . ’ |
| 30 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |