Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 2 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |
| 3 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
| 4 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 5 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 6 | His earliest rape , of a 19year-old girl , happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend . |
| 7 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 8 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 9 | They got into a big car and drove away . |
| 10 | One produced a gun before they got into a yellow Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 11 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 12 | You know , sort her meals out and then come back home that 's why she wants them to move in with her , cos they got like a little self contained flat there |
| 13 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 14 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 15 | As you can see from Table 16.2 , they account for a tiny fraction of total assets . |
| 16 | The three major schemes — the Library of Congress Classification Scheme , the Universal Decimal Classification Scheme and the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme — are treated in most detail , since they account for a good proportion of classification practice . |
| 17 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |
| 18 | EVERY retailer , big or small , selling electrical and gas appliances , will be obliged to ‘ energy label ’ the items they sell under a European Commission proposal . |
| 19 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 20 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 21 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 22 | They could never forget , he told his audience in his 70th anniversary speech later in the year , that they lived in a multinational state . |
| 23 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 24 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 25 | They lived in a depressing house in Finchley . |
| 26 | They lived by a simple code : do what the hell you liked , do it together , but be loyal to the King Rat . |
| 27 | These doubts are not examined for academic purposes , nor are they treated in a critical way . |
| 28 | Led by Siemens and Philips , they agreed on a co-operative research and development programme , half-funded by the EC . |
| 29 | How kind of you , ’ said Felicity and they agreed to a tentative appointment for the following morning . |
| 30 | They rode at a gentle trot . |