Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these signals they hope to read the bidding and counter bidding of the two ovaries . |
| 2 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 3 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 4 | However , that still leaves ministers well short of the 13 million tonnes they need to guarantee the future of enough pits . |
| 5 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 6 | With great regret they decided to abandon the project in view of the ever-increasing cost . |
| 7 | With a paucity of effects they seem to piece the cool of a Julian Cope/Teardrops sensitivity with a certain vigour that only us young ones can adopt . |
| 8 | ‘ HERE AT BLACKBURN THEY LIKE TO PLAY THE BALL THROUGH THE MIDFIELD . |
| 9 | By contraction they tend to compress the segment and are therefore important in respiratory movements . |
| 10 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 11 | When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision . |
| 12 | For two weeks they managed to evade the press . |
| 13 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 14 | During interviews with more than 2,000 adults in Chicago they attempted to identify the conflicts , frustrations and other role strains encountered by parents , married couples , workers and breadwinners , the coping behaviours used to attempt to minimise their impact , and any current symptoms of depression and anxiety . |
| 15 | But in the Dr McKenna Cup against both Monaghan and Tyrone they failed to keep the momentum going . |
| 16 | For two days they battled to cross the Snake River , swollen by winter 's melted snows . |
| 17 | Landowners ca n't do exactly what they want for a start , and if they intend to do anything which might damage the site they have to inform the Nature Conservancy Council in writing and try to work out a compromise . |
| 18 | On Monday they agreed to allow the evacuation of about 5,000 people . |
| 19 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |
| 20 | Collections , raffles , sponsored events and a quiz night/disco were held to help the nurses raise the £3,000 they needed to make the trip . |
| 21 | However , in order to show the ‘ historical ’ nature of this state of affairs they had to stress the existence of previous stages when private property was absent . |
| 22 | However , the AIB inspectors always try to be helpful and provide the coroner with the basic information he needs to establish the cause of death , but nonetheless , they sometimes get little thanks for the efforts they make to assist the coroner and sometimes they are treated in a rather off-hand manner . |
| 23 | Make sure the shopkeepers and housewives have the firepower they need to outgun the marauders . |
| 24 | That was until the grid got into proper operation and the then they got nationalized then they they transferred back onto A C. It was to bring it into line to s to keep the town supplied through all the er cables that were were being constructed for D C. They had to bring the A C back to D C. That was converters . |
| 25 | In expansion , erm people were interested in getting bigger schools , getting more teachers , getting more pupils , getting more resources , and on the whole they tended to forget the individuality at the expense of the large numbers . |
| 26 | However when the protagonists of the universalist position got into difficulties with the ethnographic evidence they tended to evade the issue by using the word " family " in some quite different sense ! |
| 27 | The next day they began to build the nest in the apple tree . |
| 28 | When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village . |
| 29 | The club were fined £1,000 by the Test and County Cricket Board for repeated ball-doctoring , and last night they pledged to publish the outcome of their investigations into the affair . |
| 30 | The children must feel confident to use any means they have to pass the message . |