Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | House builders were this week accused of going back on their word by increasing the number of homes they intend to build on a Darlington estate . |
| 2 | The begetters of the whole event are artist Chris Garratt and writer Mick Kidd , who will be running a practical workshop in the Dovecot tomorrow , when they intend to work to a deadline to produce a complete comic strip . |
| 3 | Caremore Council believe that Paul has been sexually abusing Jane and they intend to apply for a care order . |
| 4 | 1p. 61 ) That is , they tend to move between a claim as to how we do in fact conceive of causation and a recommendation as to how we ought to conceive of it . |
| 5 | On the contrary they tend to move from a state of relative disorder to one of greater order . |
| 6 | Frayed laces make tying very difficult ( and they tend to get into a knot ) , so put a little nail varnish or some tape on the ends or buy some new , novelty laces ! |
| 7 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 8 | The investment they make goes into a fund combining equities , fixed interest and cash . |
| 9 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 10 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 11 | Also on the programme police named a man they want to question about a Darlington robbery . |
| 12 | On BBC TV 's Crimewatch programme on Thursday night , police named the man they want to question about a robbery at the National Provincial Building Society in Bondgate as Alan Stephen Wild , 38 . |
| 13 | Some do it because they want to belong to a group where sniffing happens to be part of the group 's activities . |
| 14 | Some mares will actually stand and paw at a paddock fence because they want to get to a stallion that is a couple of paddocks away — consequently they are likely to cut a leg or rip off a shoe if the bottom wire of the fence is too close to the ground . |
| 15 | I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions . |
| 16 | This is because many intending EFL teachers have already obtained QTS ( perhaps through a modern languages PGCE ) and are now looking for an ‘ add-on ’ EFL qualification ; others may have decided that they want to work in a context ( usually adult education in Britain or overseas ) where QTS is not necessary or appropriate . |
| 17 | They expect to sell to a developer and move into a modern bungalow on 13 acres less than a mile away . |
| 18 | They can last for anything between a weekend and three weeks and they involve journeying to a place ( sometimes a large house has been rented for the time ; sometimes a college ) where you will eat , talk , be taught , sleep , live writing in a totally concentrated way for the length of the course . |
| 19 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
| 20 | The majority of Langbaurgh Council tenants are happy with the service they receive according to a survey by the local authority . |
| 21 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 22 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 23 | But although codes of more or less articulated principles are a practical necessity for everybody , they seem to hang in a void without anything to support them . |
| 24 | ‘ People get hooked , ’ he wrote , ‘ they begin to behave in a way that resembles addiction . |
| 25 | However , all readers are entitled to assume that the conclusions they draw lie within a range shared by the narrator 's thoughts . |
| 26 | They get trapped in a place and there , it 's filling with water and they , they 've got ta get them , they got ta , they gon na drown because it 's filling with water and they got ta get out , get out before the room fills with water completely . |
| 27 | But they continue to fight like a pair of miniature canine Kendo warriors . |
| 28 | When they decide to go for a swim there 's a real rigmarole because of the presence of the English girl . |
| 29 | From birth , the environment in which babies find themselves is an intensely social one and almost inevitably they become enmeshed in a network of social interactions ( Richards 1974 ; Schaffer 1977 ) . |
| 30 | Some women who started work after their children had grown up felt the need to continue working in order to obtain a reasonable pension on retirement , yet they were forced to retire at 60 , because that is the age when they become entitled to a state and/or occupational pension . |