Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sell everything from expired penicillin injections , pirated cassettes and old clothes to skin lightening creams — ‘ As Used by Top American Society ’ . |
| 2 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 3 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 4 | The process may sound wasteful , but they conduct it with great economy . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what they teach you in military service , is it ? ’ remarked his father , from one end of the table . |
| 6 | Previously these have not been felt by the mother but now they manifest themselves as mild pain or discomfort . |
| 7 | Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops . |
| 8 | Cereal farmers are using less nitrogen fertiliser and have changed the way that they apply it in direct response to concern over nitrogen pollution , according to a report form the Home Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 9 | At least they do it with considerable wit . |
| 10 | One might not expect sawing a Renault 5 in half to constitute part of an electronics research project , but that 's what they call it at sub-basement level , below the Strand . |
| 11 | And they 've lots of other garden ornament moulds , ranging from peacock to water nymph — plus the casting powder and a range of metallic finishes and a pack of coloured paints . |
| 12 | ( More for your reading list since they contain plenty of direct writing about writing ) . |
| 13 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 14 | The 30 New Zealand supermen — they are only human actually , but they have something like divine status in their own land — fly into Heathrow at lunchtime today for a 13-match tour which next month moves on to Ireland . |
| 15 | Put them elsewhere next year and make sure they have plenty of organic matter to draw on . |
| 16 | That is natural : they identify it with lousy government . |
| 17 | A Negro dies of heart failure , they blame it on racial segregation . |
| 18 | Other regions of the kingdom , if they see themselves in similar plight , may take heart from a Northern intention and expression of spirit . |
| 19 | They see it as important part of improving the service they give . |
| 20 | Toulousians do not use much butter , but they typically follow a diet that is high in bread , vegetables , fruit , cheese and locally produced fat-laden goose liver ; and they drink plenty of red wine . |