Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next six weeks America , Japan and Germany will between them sell more than 2m barrels a day . |
| 2 | The eggs that give rise to them develop spontaneously , without being penetrated by a sperm . |
| 3 | To George Sand , however , he seems ‘ gentle as a lamb ’ ( 1866 ) — which he denies ( 1869 ) — and the pair of them chatter away like magpies ( 1866 ) ; ten years later , at her funeral , he weeps like a calf ( 1876 ) . |
| 4 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you . |
| 6 | It will be mainly concerned with pensions , education and health care , because there are well-developed private and occupational services in all three areas and because state services in them make up about three-quarters of state welfare spending . |
| 7 | You 've probably seen some of these that are brushed , they get a very heavy brushing on them make almost into coats . |
| 8 | Although it may seem like folly to invest in such buildings , many of them make perfectly good homes and buyers would be helping to preserve Britain 's heritage . |
| 9 | Keep flashing me to say that I 've got my headlights on so I , when I , I give them flash back to say no I have n't . |
| 10 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 11 | That David 's strange behaviour had something to do with Jennifer she had little doubt , so whatever would a meeting between them bring forth ? |
| 12 | Their overall fuel policy role was also to give them influence over more central aspects of BEA decision making on the choice of fuel for power stations , particularly when oil and nuclear power began to look like attractive options to add to the industry 's coal-fired base . |
| 13 | In Sweden , five ponds were selected , four of them 60–100m apart and connected by a stream , and another 1.9km away . |
| 14 | With that as the background , it is the time for a deep study of the philosophy underlying the system — to determine afresh what we ought to be seeking to achieve , to examine how far and in what manner the results of our present practice fall short , and to sift new ideas in order to judge which of them appear both constructive and practicable in operation . |
| 15 | After mature deliberation your Committee venture to propose to you to entrust them with powers to digest a scheme for the medical department , to receive claims , and investigate the merits of the different candidates who may propose themselves to fill the different situations in this line , as well as of the subordinate attendants of the house , and to report to you at your next general meeting the names of such persons as to them appear most proper , for your final approbation . ’ |
| 16 | All three of them appear quite regularly on the Oxfordshire commission of the peace . |
| 17 | Watching them warm up was impressive , but we did n't wait for the show , wanting an early start for one of the best lines on the mountain . |
| 18 | The University as a whole contains well over fifty teachers of history , who between them provide nearly ninety courses — thereby offering students a breadth of choice equalled by only three other British universities . |
| 19 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up better adjusted , with greater self-esteem , than those who are allowed to get away with behaving any way they like . |
| 20 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up with more self-esteem and confidence than those who are allowed to get away with behaving in any way they like . |
| 21 | ‘ When we get home , go up to bed , and later I will have them send up gruel , ’ said Dinah . |
| 22 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 23 | The skipper steered the vessel at ninety degrees to the waves , careful to tackle them head on . |
| 24 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 25 | It is to make them by accelerating two beams of protons up to energies of 20TeV and then colliding them head on . |
| 26 | So you tackled them head on . ’ |
| 27 | Since Major is the first government leader from an EC country to have visited Clinton in the White House he might just have considered tackling them head on . |
| 28 | Okay well they 're two completely different spelling different things and you got them bot right I did n't I did n't help you I did n't even say and think about which sort of bean you 're using or anything like that did I . |
| 29 | Just a matter of getting them fit again , no trouble there . |
| 30 | None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense . |