Example sentences of "[vb base] they [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 2 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 3 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 4 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 5 | Plant nutrients are derived in the most part from the decomposition of plant and animal remains , during which process they reach a peat-like structure that has remarkable powers of moisture absorption and retention , and at the same time has considerable influence on the physical texture and structure of the soil . |
| 6 | Although only six per cent of 18 to 19-year-old pub goers say they prefer a congenial publican , putting the availability of real ale at the top of their list , a friendly welcome becomes markedly important as drinkers get older. , |
| 7 | The children say they had a great time , eating sweets and with a pirate on board their bus . |
| 8 | They say they had a good hearing |
| 9 | They say they had a good hearing |
| 10 | Now the hard working couple say they face a miserable Christmas and a bleak future . |
| 11 | Police say they smashed a major crime ring . |
| 12 | Massively-parallel systems developer Meiko World Inc of Bristol has retained ICL Plc to manufacture the Sparc-based processor boards for its next generation parallel systems at its Kidsgrove , Staffordshire plant under a contract that could reach several million pounds a year ; the two say they plan a long-term manufacturing relationship . |
| 13 | Customs and Excise officers say they intercepted a Dutch magazine addressed to the headmaster , and then found a dozen more in his study . |
| 14 | The police and football authorities now say they have a good picture of who 's who in the hooligan world . |
| 15 | They say they have a democractic selection procedure . |
| 16 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
| 17 | As they walk they sing a special ballad composed by the archdeacon 's niece for the occasion . |
| 18 | Australia are calling it a warm-up game for before the World Cup but I just hope they feel a little heat from my boys . |
| 19 | Laws are needed to protect women 's rates of pay and ensure they get a fair day 's pay for a fair day 's work . |
| 20 | But sometimes , on the darkest nights , when the waves pounded the shingle like bursts of distant gunfire , both the science and the symbol would seem to him as transitory as those drowned lives and he would find himself wondering if this great hulk would one day yield to the sea , like the wave-smashed concrete from the last war defences , and like them become a broken symbol of man 's long history on this desolate coast . |
| 21 | You know they get a small glass like a whisky glass ? |
| 22 | That rather than making a block grant for somebody because we know they do a good job , that we do more directly relate that to services they 're providing to us and output . |
| 23 | ‘ I know they have a famous stomach in the Vatican , but this is impossible , ’ said the atheist Walloon . |
| 24 | Two of our group have been widowed already , and they know they have a familiar place and a familiar setting to settle in . |
| 25 | For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom . |
| 26 | You know they have a creative market . |
| 27 | I remember they had a one cylinder Lister diesel generator which had to be started by hand , and it was very difficult to get a good swing at the handle . |
| 28 | Whether we ignore the inner planets , or assume they add a tiny contribution to the overall effect , the key dates that come out of the analysis are the same — and I should have made that clear in the article . |
| 29 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 30 | After the first few months of feeling sick , many pregnant women find they have a raging appetite . |