Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , management may be buying a specific business out of a larger group of companies because they perceive it to have greater value as a single concern than its ( often ) discounted value as part of the vendor 's group . |
| 2 | They 've done before you realise it , and once they 're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you 'd like to be and you 've lost your true self forever . ’ |
| 3 | Say you 're eight stone they make you put that waistcoat on , it 's nine stone . |
| 4 | As they grow they moult several times . |
| 5 | Well they want me to pay three days until she moved in . |
| 6 | And it 's just like , and they want you to make some comment on what you 've worked out , which is no problem really , is it ? |
| 7 | They want it kept low profile . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If they want us to service local communities , we must be accountable to them . |
| 9 | Why does n't this place provide models if they want us to get these things right ? ’ |
| 10 | They say they gave considerable thought before making the decision which they hope will help the trade ride the current recession . |
| 11 | They say they paid premium prices to a firm with exclusive rights to sell holidays to the Olympics , but in return were given appalling accomodation . |
| 12 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 13 | They say it likes chalky uplands … ’ |
| 14 | They say it shows little respect for the environment and have managed to pursuade council officials to consider putting preservation orders on the remaining trees . |
| 15 | Although , like Asterix , he attributed his phenomenal prowess partly to a magic potion , ‘ Superjuice ’ , concocted by his druidical sponsors , Body Ammo , he did n't really need it : ‘ They say I have three balls — I need an outlet for that extra energy . ’ |
| 16 | They say he fought twenty men , including her brothers and her father , to win her . ’ |
| 17 | They let her keep that part of herself , though much else changed . |
| 18 | ‘ I said I was unfairly handicapped , and they let me do extra Latin instead , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Th they let me have these scales . |
| 20 | They consider themselves to have considerable expertise in operating trains , many of their crew being regular volunteers on the Railway and will dress in Victorian costume for these special events in an endeavour to recreate the period of the Vintage Train . |
| 21 | They tell him to take another wife . |
| 22 | I do n't think they like you changing half way through treatment . |
| 23 | They exert themselves to produce internal heat . |
| 24 | On my experience dealing with people is however forgetful they get you know nursing homes or residential homes or whatever and they ca n't really remember from one corresponding conversation to the next they still remember that they 've got two children and that they own a bank account . |
| 25 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 26 | CAN anyone explain why a mail-order figurine takes eight days to arrive from Marseilles in France , but when I order a similar item from Canterbury — just 15 miles up the A2 from here — they advise me to allow 28 days for delivery . |
| 27 | The advertising media ( that includes TV , magazines and newspapers , posters and packaging ) use this to good effect when they encourage us to buy certain products . |
| 28 | This fact tends to make full-time reserve police very cautious in their behaviour , for they feel they have less opportunity to ease , which further means that their opinion of some regulars is not good . |
| 29 | Worse , they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions , where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut . |
| 30 | They give both psychological and physiological evidence for the primacy of these notions , and they use them to define object-recognizing routines of increasing power . |