Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 2 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 3 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 4 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 5 | Now that is a large part of our culture , which in a sense gets sucked into the educational establishment and sucked into teaching relationships , and because it 's such a consistent part of the way in which women are seen , I think they perceive it as a greater problem . |
| 6 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 7 | When we have a little technical problem they transform it into a big one . ’ |
| 8 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 9 | No , they send it in a bloody big one . |
| 10 | They provide you with a short summary of the context to help you assess the tone of the extract . |
| 11 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 13 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 14 | And then , when you find they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 15 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 16 | Just in case they hold me to a four week |
| 17 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 18 | they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm |
| 19 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 20 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 21 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
| 22 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 23 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 24 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 25 | as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one |
| 26 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
| 27 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 28 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 29 | When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body . |
| 30 | In reception they put you in a little cubicle like a wardrobe and you have to sit there for hours . |