Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think education comes into it , Chairman , because they change them every other year anyway , |
| 2 | Morality and religion open the door to oppression but in focusing so sharply on the woman 's role they make her the central symbol of the culture . |
| 3 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 4 | Perhaps they send you a similar letter . |
| 5 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 6 | They 've recently decided to halt further growth , against education policy , They say its a bold move . |
| 7 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 8 | They show us an exquisite quantity of French cured meats , smoked crayfish , mayonnaise , salads , champagne , pâté , patisserie and chocolates . |
| 9 | We pay every week to get into the game ; this money goes to the manager and team , and in return they owe us a good afternoon 's entertainment . |
| 10 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 11 | ‘ Now it 's great to be going back there in a successful side — I only hope they give me a good reception . ’ |
| 12 | Mm , mm , I do n't know , I think one of me tablets , me , for me heart , they give me a different tablet like , it was a same like Heinz Beans or Cross and Blackwell Beans |
| 13 | But do n't call the law unless they give me the black spot , or if you see the seaman with one leg — he 's worse than any of them . ’ |
| 14 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 15 | No plenty of bloody but no or see he forgot to go up and help was busy on Boxing Day they wo n't pay , they give them a free ticket to get in . |
| 16 | They take five million pounds out of the scheme as a refund they give themselves a five year contribution holiday and not one penny of that improvement goes to the members . |
| 17 | Frequently they give her the exact day they decided life was not worth living , and sometimes even the time of day the decision was made . |
| 18 | So take aways sometimes they work and sometimes they give you a nice counting number and sometimes they give you this thing . |
| 19 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |
| 20 | You ask how they know and they give you a vague description about the pelvis , etc. etc. , and you go away not altogether satisfied with the explanations . |
| 21 | Closely co-ordinated with the controls , these ‘ ladders ’ not only give you a functional , attractive display , they give you a precise setting , too . |
| 22 | Right , here 's one where they give you a little bit of the table This this is a That 's a fairly complicated sort of thing that they give on the table , erm give you the valencies and the |
| 23 | Because er while I 've had wedding cake from people and and they give you a little bit and I 've said to you have n't I , well I would n't have bothered giving anybody this . |
| 24 | and like they give you a secret number of what comes next |
| 25 | So really you 're you ca n't lose they come they give you the best advice , they give it in a written form . |
| 26 | They give you the immediate impression of being a band here to stay : one that 'll potentially outlast changes in the musical landscape , without turning into listed institutions like Simple Minds . |
| 27 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 28 | But they are particularly easy to mark , but I suspect they give us a false sense of objectivity and I think we sometimes give the statistics a little bit too much weight . |
| 29 | The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way . |
| 30 | The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way . |