Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That such aircraft are still earning their keep and plying the airwaves of the world indicates that they still have a role to play , even in this high tech age of ‘ glass ’ cockpits , autoland , sub-Mach cruise and the like . |
| 2 | But they still have a side boasting 11 full internationals . |
| 3 | But they still have a lot to learn in terms of communications , hotels , airports , the movement of people and the sensitivity to visiting teams ’ , he said . |
| 4 | For a band that was formed because four teenagers were blown away by a Wedding Present gig in Oxford they still have a lot to learn from their masters . |
| 5 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 6 | They always provide a means to recognise , identify and focus on it , and finally to think it , but often at the end of a long investigation , and only after piercing the enigma contained in certain expressions . ’ |
| 7 | They also have a willingness to accept sponsored programming , something still denied the BBC by its Charter . |
| 8 | They also have a tendency to chop up the roots of couch grass and docks , causing the spread of these weeds . |
| 9 | Not on , not only do they wee on the carpet but they also have a tendency to try and avoid , cover it up |
| 10 | They also have a right to ask for an interview , usually with an educational psychologist who is , in most cases , responsible for advising the local Education Authority advisors on special education about particular children . |
| 11 | Patients are entitled to receive accurate information about their treatment and the risks we ask them to take ; they also have a right to withhold consent from such treatment if they feel unhappy about accepting these risks . |
| 12 | They need a home where they will be safe from hunting animals such as bears or lynx and they also need a place to store food for the winter when the land is snow-bound . |
| 13 | They now send a doctor to poison us . ’ |
| 14 | Everyone knew this , but only the Japanese acted on it and they now have a ten-year lead in robotics . |
| 15 | Nina Miklin will be well known to many club members but anyone who has not been able to attend one of her talks will be pleased to hear they now have a chance to go to a choice of two workshops . |
| 16 | They selectively attract a pest to spray deposits ; these were used in the much publicised campaign against the Mediterranean fruit fly in California . |
| 17 | They simply continue a tradition established by Arthur Liberty , the firm 's Victorian founder . |
| 18 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 19 | Everyone has their own and it 's a great shame if they never get a chance to ask them . ’ |
| 20 | They never get a feedback saying , thanks for those comments but I 've those because , because I thought somebody else 's |
| 21 | ‘ The truth about chaps who want to be father figures , ’ remarked Lili , ‘ is that they actually want a mummy figure themselves . |
| 22 | With 1,531 drums and 8,221 cylinders still outstanding , representing assets worth £3.5 million , they certainly have a lot to go for . ’ |