Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] they [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any member of the secret society who takes public office or joins the police should declare they have taken the Masonic oath to counter , he told MPs . |
| 2 | It is important that we ensure that the materials we use are a reflection of attitudes and expectations more suited to a diverse society , so many teachers may feel they need to collect a more multicultural range of resources . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking I 'm going to be picked up at JFK and they 'll be expecting a black feminist and they 'll realise they 've got the wrong author . ’ |
| 4 | To hear him tell it you 'd think they 'd had a date and she 'd turned up late ! |
| 5 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 6 | When they told me at work she 'd bought that , I was , cos they lived up at Green Lane I thought my God he 'd have they 've picked a a bad spot there cos there 's no flood protection at all there . |
| 7 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |
| 8 | ‘ You could say they have suffered a technical knee in the groin , ’ Mr Blackburn told a news conference in London . |
| 9 | " Well , I 'd say they 've copied a good idea from the squirrels and that makes them better rabbits . " |
| 10 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 11 | ‘ We would agree they have got a reason to be concerned about their future . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Middlesbrough will think they have won the tie because of their unbeaten home record and our poor away form . |
| 13 | The quality buildings will be let — Broadgate is now 95 per cent leased — but slowly developers will realise they have to convert the bad space which I can only say is a lot of classified DIY . ’ |
| 14 | I know few people in my situation will admit they have made a mistake for rear of looking silly . |
| 15 | Someone will say they 've got a machine that prints names on badges . |
| 16 | ‘ When those concerned turn their attention to this problem , they may find they have to make a distinction between litigation in which there is a direct public interest in the result and that in which the public interest is limited to ensuring that an adequate system of justice is available . |
| 17 | Are we also going to try and match those up with the attainment targets , so that we can say they 've completed a work sheet successfully ? |