Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have come to appreciate over the years , however , that the extra material they provide makes a great safety net . |
| 32 | Talking of which , Neighbours ' twins Gillian and Gayle Blakeney ( pictured above , although which is which is anyone 's guess ) in Liverpool to prepare for this year 's Empire panto , Dick Whittington , say they hope to have a single cut by Christmas . |
| 33 | My country is full of distinctions of this kind , and in the congenial climate of Oxford they flourish to form a semantic jungle through which only the natives can make their way . |
| 34 | Even affable John , one of nature 's gentlemen , can only take so much and has now stopped being polite because when the police recognize him , as they do , they seem to take a particular delight in grilling someone famous . |
| 35 | In fact , they seem to get a good price for their equity , because they only sell when they sense that investors feel lucky . |
| 36 | They seem to have a Gaelic sound to some of these names . |
| 37 | Plaintiffs must prove that the words of which they complain have a defamatory meaning , that the words refer to them , and that the defendant was responsible for publishing them . |
| 38 | Both activities can be very enjoyable But neither activity will get you very far in your quest for fitness , and to be honest they give walking a bad name . |
| 39 | ‘ I would like to speak to any spectators who were at that match — particularly if they remember seeing a young girl in the company of an older man . ’ |
| 40 | They like to see a golden eagle , it being the only eagle that lives in Britain . |
| 41 | It 's a long-established human set-up , whose name comes from the Old Arcturean quickspeak for ’ family Organization ’ — because they like to affect a patriarchal system and because they demand the same absolute loyalty and devotion that one would show to close kinfolk . |
| 42 | They like to watch a tough woman up there on the screen and comfort themselves with the thought that they 'll never have to live with her . ’ |
| 43 | Many women find , over a period of time , that they like to take a regular supplement of evening primrose oil . |
| 44 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 45 | Cricket in Sri Lanka is indeed a tough job with the high humidity as big a factor as the near 100 degree temperatures and the weather does add extra pressure on England 's players at the end of a long and arduous tour as they try to regain a little bit of their lost pride . |
| 46 | They try to maintain a rough balance across the liquidity range , but the precise composition of assets will vary as interest rates on the various assets vary , and as the demands for liquidity vary . |
| 47 | In accepting this offer , they agree to buy a certain number of books or records over a specific period of time ( eg four books a year ) . |
| 48 | ‘ CO&sub2 ; extract hops are expensive but they do give a good hop nose when they 're added in the conditioning tank . |
| 49 | While these figures refer to crimes committed by juveniles , they do give a good indication of the extent of class differences in crime statistics generally , given the high proportion of offenders who are juveniles . |
| 50 | But even allowing for such problems and treating the figures with due caution , they do give a dramatic picture of the relative sizes of different currency segments of the world bond market . |
| 51 | All these controls can be turned off , but they do form a comforting security blanket . |
| 52 | On the other hand , they do favour a horizontal row of dots moving horizontally over a vertical row of dots moving vertically . |
| 53 | So that there will be general consensus whilst they do represent a reasonable view of the people . |
| 54 | And they do represent a little slice of history … |
| 55 | Contrary to ( uninformed ? ) views sometimes expressed it is acknowledged that physical geographers are respected for the contribution that they can make — when they do make a specific contribution . |
| 56 | And even when they do make a specific choice , non-cost factors are generally more important to them than cost factors . |
| 57 | For both Somers and Tutchin , our representatives were the " Trustees and Guardians of the People 's Liberties " ; if " instead of Executing this Trust , they do make a Forcible Attempt upon our Liberties … |
| 58 | While the criticisms outlined above do not obviate the necessity of some nativistic assumptions , they do suggest a different way of addressing the problem . |
| 59 | Of course , whether the Anura constitute a family , an order , or a class is an arbitrary matter : the point is that they do constitute a natural group . |
| 60 | Nevertheless they do provide a rough scheme for organising the multitude of empirical facts concerning the growth of unions . |