Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a pity , as it means that students find it harder to get their names known , and it means they lose out on a degree of publicity . |
| 2 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 3 | If these lines come into contact with others of ‘ foreign ’ material such as a polyester , then they melt through in a trice and your kite is away , floating down on the breeze leaving you with two rather expensive short ends . |
| 4 | Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , you can ‘ But , Daddy ’ at me all you like — it 's not going to bring you , or any of those amadans mocking the poor guard , back to life when they walk out under a ten-ton truck . ’ |
| 6 | When they spot some promising zebras , or antelopes , they spread out into a line . |
| 7 | It was Jeff who 'd insisted that they stop off for a drink . |
| 8 | A recent RAC survey shows that only 16% of women know what to do if they break down on a motorway . |
| 9 | They wash out over a number of shampoos . |
| 10 | Yes because it 's not the like that underneath , if they did n't pull it apart they , they cut down , if they cut down with a knife they could cut into something could n't they ? |
| 11 | They , they did n't pull it apart they , they cut down if they cut down with a knife then they could cut into something could n't they ? |
| 12 | They add up to a novel of leaking secrets and amputated thoughts , of wildly comic material sometimes dully , almost dutifully deployed , as if the humour had escaped the teller ; of people ‘ missing ’ each other in dialogue |
| 13 | They stay submerged for ages , until you begin to think you 've only imagined you saw one go in — and then they pop up with a beakful of food . |
| 14 | Later they meet up with a couple of girls whose telephone numbers Michael finds in his pocket , and as a crazy night out they all have dinner at the Ritz . |
| 15 | Sometimes they stand in for a deity , haunting the sacred places and occupying a position midway between gods and men . |
| 16 | They stand out in a city that seems , until one discovers its finer corners , architecturally roughhewn . |
| 17 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
| 18 | And having made their decision they set out with a will to forge a network of rough roads through this wilderness that would link the stockades of wire . |
| 19 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 20 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |
| 21 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 22 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 23 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 24 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |
| 25 | Getting faster , steady speed in that bit , and then from the speed there which is steep , as you follow the tangent of that curve , it 's slower , slower , slower , and they slow down to a walk , and then they stop . |
| 26 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 27 | Eventually they end up at a reprocessing plant where they are ground into tiny flakes , washed and dried . |
| 28 | The approach of the two men to each other is conducted like a ritual , a crucial moment of which comes when they go up in a plane together for the first time . |
| 29 | And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . |
| 30 | Ciaran Fitzgerald 's dishevelled and disheartened foot soldiers ( l-r ) Halpin , Smith , Popplewell , Rigney , Galwey and Fitzgibbon , reel from the French onslaught as they go down by a record margin in Paris . |