Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reflects the overall size of these departments , and the fact that all of them appear to have the resources to cover all of the earth science sub-disciplines in depth . |
| 2 | This reflects the overall size of these departments , and the fact that all of them appear to have the resources to cover all of the earth science sub-disciplines in depth . |
| 3 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 4 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 5 | They agreed to appoint a committee to facilitate the international monitoring of the violence . |
| 6 | In 1987 they agreed to pay the sum to help bring construction forward , but the project has been dogged by setbacks . |
| 7 | In addition , they intend to lease a horse to run in the race and this should provide a novel angle if nothing else . |
| 8 | But before players go out they tend to kick the wall to make sure their boots are on properly . |
| 9 | ‘ I hear they 've got a problem to worry at there , but details I do n't know . ’ |
| 10 | — A reduction in the size of the fee that companies who wish to be a part of the LTA 's Ball Pool need to pay if they want to have the right to bid for LTA tournaments . |
| 11 | At the European Summit in Birmingham , the Prime Minister has urged delegates to send a clear signal that they want to build a community to serve the interests of its citizens . |
| 12 | I think they tried to persuade the landlords to bring another . |
| 13 | Er they tried to write a rider to bypass it completely , but I do n't know whether that is sound . |
| 14 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 15 | Although formally set out only at a later date ( c.1372 ) , they came to include the rights to create notaries , to legitimize bastards , to grant letters conferring the status of bourgeoisie and nobility , to issue pardons and remissions , to license fairs and markets , to permit suitors to be represented at law by proctors , and to legislate for the common weal of the kingdom . |
| 16 | This would certainly explain how they came to feel the need to have some wider understanding of how , and to what extent , we can acquire knowledge of any sort . |
| 17 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 18 | Prosecuting counsel told the jury they 'd hatched the plot to claim insurance money , and to avoid giving Stokle his share of the house in Staunton he 'd bought with Stroud . |
| 19 | By the end , of course , they were thoroughly enjoying themselves because they 'd had a bit to drink and it was a jolly convivial evening . ’ |
| 20 | I put them back into the tank , still amazed they 'd had the strength to move the glass . |
| 21 | It was n't very fair to feel betrayed by someone you loved , someone very close to you , simply because they 'd had the misfortune to die suddenly … |
| 22 | I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they 'd got no shoes to fit me . |
| 23 | They paid to enter the marquee to see the Spot the Talent competition . |
| 24 | They pledged to launch a campaign to save the terminal . |
| 25 | Uppermost among them will be how they begin to devise a strategy to defeat a man who is both boxer and puncher . |
| 26 | Could they have got an actor to pretend to be my dad ? |
| 27 | Indeed , it may even be possible to argue that certain types of reservation of title clause are caught by s3 , in so far as they purport to allow the seller to retain title until certain conditions are fulfilled , and therefore permit it to render a performance substantially different from that reasonably expected of it , or no performance at all . |
| 28 | They decided to keep the sailors to help sail the ship , but they did not need me . |
| 29 | They try to extend the theories to deal with the gender issues they gloss over . |
| 30 | Like my father I love books and solitude and I flee from publicity , the brutality of the media , interviews where they try to get the interviewee to say things he does n't really think , as though to catch him out . |