Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 2 | She crunched through toast and marmalade while Rory had a shower , then said they had to hurry down to breakfast , she 'd need the bulk to make sure a hangover did not develop from the great variety of booze they 'd sunk the night before . |
| 3 | But in their clumsy efforts to break the steering lock they had broken the steering itself . |
| 4 | In other cases where British judges have been unable to reconcile Community and national law they have thrown the burden of responsibility back upon the government and suggested that the applicants sue the government for breach of a Community obligation under Case C-6190 and C-9190 Francovich and Bonifaci v Italy [ 1992 ] IRLR 84 . |
| 5 | No wonder they had let the army take over this area ; it was worth nothing for farming . |
| 6 | The Chinese lunch they 'd had the secretary phone out for lay on the coffee table like a child 's experiments with putty and paint and designer ooze . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With great regret they decided to abandon the project in view of the ever-increasing cost . |
| 9 | By contraction they tend to compress the segment and are therefore important in respiratory movements . |
| 10 | Her parents , William and Nellie Tanner , had been forced out of the terraced house in Page Street , the home they had brought the family up in , when her father 's employer George Galloway , who owned the house , decided he was going to make changes . |
| 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 | So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By early evening they had reached the documentary department offices on the second floor and in one desk , at the back of an open drawer , was the pair of scissors . |
| 15 | God alone knows what planet they 've sent the luggage to . |
| 16 | Its representatives could not understand the peculiar reaction they got form the French whenever they produced their business cards . |
| 17 | to tell daddy they 've repaired the car . |
| 18 | At the court they had made the jewellery for the Imperial eunuchs . |
| 19 | In this worthwhile presentation they have given the steam enthusiast a good variety of shots and locations which keep the interest for the full extent of the film . |
| 20 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 24 | The next day they began to build the nest in the apple tree . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | mind they have got they 've got the curlm they 've got the girl back have n't they , that 's one |
| 27 | so if you did fit anything on the back of the head they 'd had the comfort , they know what was wrong like |
| 28 | Somali rebels said last night they had captured the country 's second-largest city after ‘ an all-out offensive ’ that prompted many government troops to defect to their side . |
| 29 | Somali rebels said last night they had captured the country 's second-largest city after ‘ an all-out offensive ’ that prompted many government troops to defect to their side . |
| 30 | Somali rebels said last night they had captured the country 's second-largest city after ‘ an all-out offensive ’ that prompted many government troops to defect to their side . |