Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with their newest inventions ( a super-duper jeep and hi-tech helicopter ) they vow to take on the forces of evil and blast their way to freedom — so get blasting ! |
| 2 | They intend to keep up the pressure , because I understand that the player can be lured to Old Trafford . |
| 3 | Even where migrants do join in , they tend to alter completely the nature of the events . |
| 4 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 5 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 6 | While it does seem to be a little less pernicious , in that male respondents less often say that they want to marry only a woman who is a virgin than they used to , it is still alive and well in that women are more often criticized than men for engaging in non-marital sexual activity . |
| 7 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ They want to bring back the tsar . ’ |
| 9 | A group of squatters evicted from health authority land two years ago say they want to know why the site has remained empty ever since . |
| 10 | Plus they want to know how the branches is gon na operate . |
| 11 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 12 | They propose to take away the courts ' most important sanction — the power to take over a union 's assets . |
| 13 | Gradually they hope to strip away the disguises and help both partners to understand themselves and each other better and recognize the ways in which they interact . |
| 14 | They seem to talk quite a lot up high in the in their nasal passages . |
| 15 | Then they seem to take on a mind of their own , then they become positively malignant ! ’ |
| 16 | One can feel that the emotions in these novels are very deep as they seem to bounce off every page to reveal yet another new anguish as the protagonists ' sad , poverty stricken lives unfold . |
| 17 | They seem to have rather a thing about , I do n't know , nature , ’ he tells Howard . |
| 18 | Suppose , I suppose if erm Pat or erm Annette wanted to find out what really happened they 'd ask Dianne and Dianne would tell them cos they , they get to find out the truth then and she was lo lo lying . |
| 19 | Thus , they are viewed as having in mind an analytical model which they believe explains how the economy works . |
| 20 | Although acrylic varnishes are dry in about 30 minutes , they continue to harden over a period of 24–48 hours , but here again this time may vary between different makes . |
| 21 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |
| 22 | ( iii ) Lastly , non-causal nomic connections are stated by numerical laws different in that they do specify how a magnitude varies with time . |
| 23 | Yeah , but they do grow out a bit too . |
| 24 | Such studies do not settle the issue definitively , but they do bring out the problems facing a simple ‘ deskilling ’ or ‘ degradation of work ’ thesis . |
| 25 | Well then when they start looking about a bit more , that is when it costs you because anything that Les has to get involved in , cos they go back to Les and say well why did he do this and why did you do that ? |
| 26 | And I liked er the the polishing you know , the what they call building up a body . |
| 27 | Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't . |
| 28 | Braggarts talk at the interviewer and are often so concerned and anxious about themselves that they fail to notice how the interviewer is responding . |
| 29 | They fail to explain when a CSO will be used or how it would be implemented . |
| 30 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |