Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 2 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 3 | Would the evening 's audience lob the balls back , or would they treat them as collectable souvenirs ? |
| 4 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 5 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 6 | When , however , they borrow them from other disciplines , they must expect either that the chronological fit is bad ( if they insist on matching the style ) or that the stylistic fit is bad ( if they match the chronology ) . |
| 7 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 8 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 9 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 10 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 11 | Then they tried it with various kinds of depression , even psychoses . |
| 12 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 13 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 14 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 15 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 16 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 17 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 18 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 19 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 20 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 21 | Er , the recommendation to those committees was that they should treat the paper as a basis for consultation , it was on that basis that they approved it , it was my impression that they support it in general terms . |
| 22 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 23 | Mr Newman died on the night of the general election , but police released full details only yesterday after they identified him from dental records . |
| 24 | The process may sound wasteful , but they conduct it with great economy . |
| 25 | In general , there is evidence that children who have developed a sensitivity to cow 's milk may become sensitive to soya proteins as well , if they consume them in large quantities . |
| 26 | They view it through other men 's eyes . |
| 27 | It turns out they read it in sensational newspapers at the supermarket checkout counter . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Type L ’ isoleucine in the living organism and ‘ type D ’ isoleucine in the dead organism have almost the same chemical characters , but when they are hit by light they deflect it in different ways . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's what they teach you in military service , is it ? ’ remarked his father , from one end of the table . |
| 30 | They wake you at three-hourly intervals all night long . |