Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves . |
| 2 | They advocate returning to the rates . |
| 3 | They tend to sleep in the afternoons . ’ |
| 4 | Er not so much on Street because they tend to stand near the flats . |
| 5 | The suggestions they make build in the views described in section 9-3-1 , as follows : |
| 6 | They want to read between the lines , to worm their way into the subtext and assumptions behind the presented image , and to discover the practices that are accidentally or deliberately hidden to view . |
| 7 | Work on the Museum now reports that the wing control surfaces have recently been reworked and they hope to have on the wings themselves restarted soon . |
| 8 | They lie scattered amongst the hills and moorlands and skill using a compass and map is almost as important as skill using a fishing rod . |
| 9 | We might not even get as much coverage as Sunderland if they manage to get into the play-offs ( and with the way their luck goes they 'll get a play-off place by finishing tenth ) . |
| 10 | These are often vital for a beginner , because they give meaning to the tasks involved . |
| 11 | The shamans explain that , at that point , they begin to speak to the dolphins mind to mind . |
| 12 | In our half-hour chat , I meet Little Brother ( ‘ He always comes in when you want to shag your girlfriend ’ ) ; the Gits ( ‘ They like looking through the obituaries and camping out next to accident black spots ’ ) ; Lee and Lance ( ‘ a couple of garage owners , they spend all their time putting Garfield stickers on cars ’ ) ; and Euro-Man ( ‘ as far as he 's concerned , the Euro-Parliament is just one big Amsterdam squat ’ ) . |
| 13 | They get rid of the crooks , set Jim free , and eventually go back where they started but with Aunt Sally trying to ’ sivilize ’ Finn ! |
| 14 | " They get kicked in the teeth . " |
| 15 | By the time of anthesis , there is time for four generations and a single insect can by then have given rise to 4000 juveniles : they get trapped between the anthers and the petals as the ! lowers open and , as adults , feed on the pollen . |
| 16 | The trouble with all these bust-ups is they get deflected to the players on the pitch in the end . |
| 17 | Are the Government prepared to put up money to assist local authorities if they decide to prosecute in the interests of what they believe ought to be the law , and in fact is the law ? |
| 18 | They become known by the headhunters as a likely place in which to find appropriate candidates for other searches . |
| 19 | Or the rabbits sit tight underground as they become cornered by the ferrets . |
| 20 | You have things like heredity , marriages , divorces , erm some way of life which has to do with Islamic doctrine that you do and some dispute happens , you take it to the Islamic courts and they have religious judges who take it in that context and they go according to the laws of Islam . |
| 21 | He says that they try to deal with the complaints as they come in , but getting enough evidence for an arrest takes time . |
| 22 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 23 | No doubt many people in advertising and public relations , as well as their professional associations , will protest that their work is not all about making money and that they do care about the communications they create and the messages they send to the public . |
| 24 | They do sing like the birds . |
| 25 | Yeah no the Black are good but they do sound like the Stones . |
| 26 | You 've learned there 's no hope with one-night standers , so simply say thanks for the meal , but no thanks when they start asking for the afters . |
| 27 | In addition , they aim to distinguish between the problems experienced by |
| 28 | As I suggested in chapter one , Christine Brooke-Rose 's first four novels constitute a conceptual prologue to her later work , but because they fail to break with the assumptions of the conventional novel , they are unable adequately to articulate the relation of individual identity to language . |
| 29 | They differ in whether they exist incorporated into the chromosomes or free in the cytoplasm of the cells they inhabit , and in how they pass from one cell to another . |
| 30 | The bankers realize they 've bombed with the blockbusters . |