Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 2 | Although they have worked as a duo since 1987 and have built up a great following throughout these islands and abroad , their respective musical experiences go back much further . |
| 3 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 4 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 5 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 6 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 7 | This is pa at least in part due to the glossy advertising that they 've launched at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds a week . |
| 8 | What that obviously means is that they 've drawn from a very , from a very wide area and therefore , they , they 've got the long , main industrial estate , which has thirteen factories , of which only three are occupied , and ten which are unoccupied , which are erm , in fact deteriorating . |
| 9 | Coercive inducements are inducements which are so powerful , and so difficult to refuse , that they come to act as a kind of coercion . |
| 10 | What is more , both of them have stated that they prefer to work in a rural setting . |
| 11 | This is because many intending EFL teachers have already obtained QTS ( perhaps through a modern languages PGCE ) and are now looking for an ‘ add-on ’ EFL qualification ; others may have decided that they want to work in a context ( usually adult education in Britain or overseas ) where QTS is not necessary or appropriate . |
| 12 | Though L4 of Nematodirus spp. apparently arrested in their development have been recorded at necropsy , there is no obvious seasonal pattern to their occurrence and it seems more likely that they have accumulated as a consequence of host resistance rather than hypobiosis . |
| 13 | It extends , it seems , to a claim for compensation in respect of all the loss which the plaintiffs say that they have suffered as a result of the transaction concerning C.M.C. and the bakery , including the amounts which the plaintiffs have had to pay as guarantors and compensation for loss of earnings , loss of reputation and mental anguish . |
| 14 | It is estimated that they have fallen from a peak of £62 a square foot to £38 . |
| 15 | I did , and they , oh Chris erm happened to notice that they have charged for a new phone that I have n't got . |
| 16 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 17 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 18 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |
| 19 | Within families , the lower costs per unit length of streamer tails should mean that they have evolved to a greater maximum length than more expensive , graduated tails . |
| 20 | Will one of them tumble to the heretical truth , that they have sprung from a remote , earlier form of life , rooted in organic , carbon chemistry , rather than the silicon-based electronic principles of their own bodies ? |
| 21 | Of course all large firms try to gain this sort of flexibility and the fact that they are large indicates that they have succeeded to a greater extent than their smaller rivals . |
| 22 | Compaq Computer Corp and Microsoft Corp came together in Washington yesterday to announce that they have entered into a comprehensive agreement to develop new products and markets and to make personal computers easier to use . |
| 23 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |
| 24 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 25 | In recent years it has been found that a high proportion of patients suffering from piles require no further treatment once they have switched to a high-fibre diet and as a result pass soft stools that can be evacuated with minimal straining . |
| 26 | Electoral democracy produces a ready-made machine for minority groups to fight effectively for a share of central resources , once they learn to act as a group and are sufficiently concentrated for electoral purposes . |
| 27 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 28 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 29 | And they 've come to a judgement on those issues and their judgement is that erm they s should support the principle of a western route . |
| 30 | Frayed laces make tying very difficult ( and they tend to get into a knot ) , so put a little nail varnish or some tape on the ends or buy some new , novelty laces ! |