Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored . |
| 2 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 3 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 4 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 5 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 6 | A a a member of staff may feel that they want to say something about a kid , and it does not necessarily have to agree with what the kid |
| 7 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 8 | They want to commit themselves to a single currency and to deny a future Parliament or Government the power to make a vital decision . |
| 9 | The couple have been offered a decoration grant of £210 , hardly enough , they say to turn it into a home . |
| 10 | The Pritchards have n't given up yet , but they say putting them in a council house would be like putting them in prison . |
| 11 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 12 | I do nt think they ve had one for a few years . |
| 13 | ‘ Everybody who carries a knife should know that if they try to take it into a club , they wo n't just be banned from that club , but all the clubs in town . ’ |
| 14 | They try to hide it in a wardrobe , but it will not fit . |
| 15 | And that 's when you really start getting problems and they start treating something as a continuous function , and it 's not . |
| 16 | The bothy was in Pat 's family , and they 've made it into a lovely home . |
| 17 | But they do n't actually scoop it out off from the blast furnace , they drill a hole in the side where they 've plugged it with a lump of clay . |
| 18 | They 've tested it at a hundred and thirty five miles done , eh ? |
| 19 | ‘ It 's gone now , they 've turned it into a boutique . |
| 20 | Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award . |
| 21 | They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education . |
| 22 | ‘ Cypress Hill are smoking funk , and they 've rolled it into a fat album featuring ‘ How I Could Just Kill A Man ’ and ‘ Hand On The Pump ’ . |
| 23 | and the others are chocolate , and they 've put them in a |
| 24 | I mean I feel sorry for them erm they 've put themselves in a position branded forever more or less . |
| 25 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 26 | ‘ Now ’ , she said , ‘ they 've told you in a very bald way . |
| 27 | Got them over , they , they said , they said they know they 've got them over a barrel . |
| 28 | They 've got you in a cage . |
| 29 | And I said is my caravan being cleaned weekly as people go out if they 've got it for a fortnight fortnightly . |
| 30 | Well they 've allocated you as a grocer , he said , but you 're not a grocer . |